I Broke My MacBook User Profile by Deleting a Single Folder(kevq.uk)

I Broke My MacBook User Profile by Deleting a Single Folder

https://kevq.uk/i-broke-my-apple-profile-by-deleting-a-folder

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I had a conversation with Apple support where they told me that the Chess program can not be deleted because it is needed for the Operating System to function properly. My first instinctive response was “today is not the April 1st, guys”, but apparently they weren’t joking.

If somebody told me this before I wouldn’t believe them, but here we go. Why would they do something like this?

miles4 anni fa

I tried reproducing the issue in a macOS 12 Monterey Intel-based VM by deleting ~/Documents (it was automatically recreated on reboot) and deleting ~/Documents then creating a new symlink with the same name in the same directory (as the author did) to a directory outside of ~ (the symlink worked fine, even after rebooting).

Pym4 anni fa

I have been doing this since years and never had a problem... The author is blaming the system while he made a mistake when he tried to create the symlink.

Also he wrote "SimLink command" in the article. PEBKAC here :)

olliej4 anni fa

Maybe some interaction with iCloud Drive or Dropbox? iCD seems more likely to be able to take out the system, but maybe Dropbox does funky things as well?

karmakaze4 anni fa

...and running Synology Drive to sync

...and messing with symlinks resulting in a ~/.documents file (or folder)

kleer0014 anni fa

oof, what a wild ride

being a settings tweaker myself I could see myself having done exactly that