Hey DotMike - power user - check yourself; your politics are showing…
DotMike wrote:
Anyone having trouble finding the folder, don't despair. I am a power user and techie and I had an extremely difficult time finding it. This is not by accident—they want to make this process as difficult as possible in any way they can, and it's not unlikely that there is some collusion from Apple to facilitate this difficulty.
Dumb comment #1: What? I say...what?? Amazon and Apple, who are in court fighting each other right now, colluded to make this as difficult as possible? Puh-leeeeze…
The developer of the application has the choice of where their library, prefrence information and user data goes - they could have chosen to put user data in Documents, if they saw the data as a Document (somethings other apps could use) but instead Kindle has it's own book format, so it went into the Application Support/Kindle directory because of their choice for their proprietary .awz files.
But let's party on… questionable comment #2:
…As of June 6th, 2013, the folder is indeed in: ~/Users/(user name)/Library/Application Support/Kindle/My Kindle Content
Thing is, my User/Library is now a hidden folder! (In other words, I did not see it, I could not search for .awz files or the Kindle folder.) Thus, I was forced to use a console command to show hidden files in order to access it. However, this did not solve the problem, as the applications I was trying to use to in conjunction with the eBooks (namely, stripping the DRM so I can access my lawfully purchased content the way that I want to access it) were unable to see the User/Library folder.
THE ABSOLUTE SIMPLEST SOLUTION:
-Open the Kindle App
-Choose "Kindle/Preferences"
-There is a path to the content folder in the hidden User/Library. Select "Change..."
-Enter the new location for your kindle content folder. (I suggest "Documents/Kindle/My Kindle Content")
And it's as easy as that. 😉
Wow - Amazon hid their support files in (gasp!) Application Support!
You say it's Apple who's making it hard for "Power User"-you to find the files - by making the ~/Library directory inaccessible. Mmmm, let's see - Amazon chose to save the files into the preferences instead of a Documents structure, and suddenly it's Apple's fault?
As usual with these kinds of arguments, they muddle two things to fabricate a problem.
Yes - ~/Library is hidden by default as of Lion. There's nothing insidious there, but why do it?
Could it be because it's some place the average user never needs to go into? Unless they need to delete a specific preference file or reciept, and then if so, why expose the entire folder - you're supposed to be a power user: use the terminal.
This one folder is the one in the Home directory that can cripple the machine the fastest if deleted, and given they're doing tech support for the world -- not you -- they might have some insight as to whether this was an issue with the "non-power-user"-class of people. You know…the non-rightous, everyday user.
Anyone with the bit of time with the Finder knows that pressing the ALT key uncovers hidden benefits - it's the slightest of filtering to keep casual mistakes from happening, but it's invaluable to keep the UI as clean possible. Don't tell me that one keypress is too much, Mr. Power-User, because I'll lose all faith in your immesuarable powers!
To uncover your Library folder:
- Go to the desktop and look at the menus.
- Click Go and you'll see the list of standard directories in your Home folder
- Now press Alt - What? WHAT is this WITCHCRAFT! There's a LIBRARY folder up there now!!
You have a problem with DRM and are savvy enough to strip it away (Calibre?) but the Alt key evaded you?
Beligerant, overly-rightous and non-thinking comment #3:
(Remember, Steve Jobs was a raging control freak and Apple's only corporate mission at this point seems to be nickle-and-diming it's customers to death even though they've finally, after years of struggle, reached the point where it's not only the affluent who buy their products, with absolutely no regard for customer goodwill despite the fact that they're sitting on $150 Billion in cash, which cash they are sure to spend in every wrong way so that 10 years from now they will no longer be the largest technology company in the world but will have gone the way of Microsoft. (I'm a Wozniak guy from way back if your couldn't tell 😉 The absolute coolest people are NEVER about the money.) Anyhoo...
If you knew anything about Apple, and it's near-death in the 90s, you'd know why they don't spend all their money. They're buying back common stock, buying companies (quietly), and giving investors dividends, but it's not their job to give all of it away or to spend it all. It's their job to make money, keep the community and platform(s) healthy and to keep products in development (check, check(s) and as of next-weeks devcon, likely check…).
I can't tell who the coolest people are, but I can tell who are the whinest, the whingiest and those with an agenda.
