First, I apologize for the following statements that will offer no info or suggestions on this topic.
Your User Library is in every single screen shot you put in posts #12, 13, and 14. It's right there in your Sidebar. You have already made it visible by using some of the thousands of posts all over the web and here at TS. It's between "Dropbox" and "Music" in every single screenshot, even the Time Machine one.
You even mentioned looking into your Library in post #10. You absolutely, positively, did not need/require that nice little app.
Still waiting on the screen shot of your Users & Groups System Pref?
You seem to be using shift-command-3, which takes a picture of your
entire screen (fairly large). The forum software is smart enough to make a thumbnail image in the post, but if we want to actually see the image, there is a big waste of bandwidth when we download it. Also, it completely covers our screens, making it harder to see anything else at the same time. Please use
shift-command-4, instead. That will allow you to capture only the important area of the screen.
Do
NOT turn off Time machine. It is NOT just
another cloning app like SuperDuper or CarbonCopyCloner. As a matter of fact,
it is not any kind of "cloner" app. It saves,
every hour, anything you have created or edited, installed or updated on your Mac since the last hourly backup. Let's say you did nothing in a two hour period but make a single letter edit to a text document. You can then go into Time Machine tomorrow and get that document back, you can even wait a week and still get it back! Even if you wait a couple of months, that deleted document is still there for you to retrieve. You can't do that with SuperDuper or CCC if they run every 24 hours.
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It's built right into my system... I can't find any Recovery System or such anywhere.
If you have 10.7 (Lion) or later (some hardware restrictions apply if your hardware is earlier than 2010), you have this. You can "see" it in Disk Utility. You access it by using command-r during a Startup.
Please, please, update your Profile info (
My Controls->Personal Profile->Edit Profile->My Macs) here so we don't have to scroll back through a bunch of posts to find out what OS you have installed. Even if you tell us in a post in response to someone, that info might be needed in a completely different thread... now someone has to ask you again... Just as we try to make our suggestions as easy and clear as possible for questioners, we really appreciate getting help from them; it just makes everything so much easier.
Now, I'm signing off. This may be the last time anyone gives me the microphone!
