I updated to OSX 10.9.3 and lost my Users Folder. What Happened?

Hi Again lkrupp:

I just installed the iTunes 11.2.1 hasty update with sucess on computer #3 (the desktop that I had tried with Lefthand888's solution and then with Filematey to retrieve my Users folder from the "invisibility" penalty box). I am all fixed. Everyone else who has the issue, do install the iTunes 11.2.1 patch fix, because it does work like a charm. Even though it seems anti-intuitive by the naming, the patch also has into it the OSX 10.9.3 coding to restore my Users folder, including all users and Shared folders within it.

Incidently Terminal is working now too. It was doing weird stuff before because the iTunes 11.2.0 original trouble-maker had the unhappy side effect of not allowing my Admin password to be recognized as such. That's why I couldn't log in to it to do what simple scripting fixes I normally able to do as a novice Terminal user.

Thank you again lkrupp and the rest of the Apple blog commuity for saving my software bacon! Give this person 20 points!

Why would Apple make the user folder invisible? I just don't understand why Apple does what it does especially in the past couple years.

itasarah wrote:

Why would Apple make the user folder invisible? I just don't understand why Apple does what it does especially in the past couple years.

It was done inadvertently. It was a bug. They fixed it quickly. End of story. It has nothing to do with Steve Jobs being dead. Get over it.

I didn't say anything about Steve Jobs. Why do you have to be so snippy! I'm glad they fixed it. I'll wait probably until they fix some of the other issues people have written about.

itasarah wrote:

I'll wait probably until they fix some of the other issues people have written about.

Note that the hidden User folder was not a 10.9.3 issue at all. The only things I have read about 10.9.3 are issues that previously existed and still aren't fixed. I don't think I've seen a single new issue unless it involved third party software.

If you aren't having any problems with 10.9.2 that were fixed then I guess it's OK to wait since all of it's security updates were also contained in Security Update 2014-002. Apparently you can't get any of the Security fixes you get with a Safari 7.0.4 update until you are at 10.9.3.