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~username folder appeared in the root of Macintosh HD


Yesterday I noticed a folder appeared in the root of my Mac HD, it has a tilde (~) before my username and the folder itself is read-only. The folder directory goes as: /~simon/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports and there are no other files/folders in there. Being a perfectionist, I don't want this folder to be there. I searched the internet and there's no record of this issue, solutions on how to get rid of this folder will be much appreciated.

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jun 17, 2020 6:53 AM

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So anyway, I went into recovery and opened the Terminal and rm -rfed the folder and it worked.

Posted on Jun 19, 2020 3:04 AM

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~username folder appeared in the root of Macintosh HD

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