User Template can't be opened

I found a User Template folder in my hd with a red circle with a dash in it. It's the only folder that has this. When I click on it, it

says it can't be opened because I don't have permission to see its contents. What's so secret that I can't see what's on my

own computer? I asked a friend with the same operating system to check their hd library folder. They don't have this file.

I just tried to download Macports--does it have to do with that? Or is it some sort of malware? thanks.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jun 9, 2014 9:13 AM

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Jun 9, 2014 9:26 AM in response to SAEU

A continuation of the above. This is really odd. I put the folder in the trash. Then I decided to put it back. When I put it back in the library, it mysteriously lost its red circle with dash and I could open it. Inside is a file labeled pt_PT.lproj. Inside are three files: Documents, Downloads and Library. In Documents is Piha de documentos, an Apple-looking document in Spanish. Same with Downloads. Library contains a file FontCollections which is also in Spanish. What a strange file. Does anybody know what this is?

Jun 9, 2014 12:18 PM in response to Niel

1. I don't speak Portugese, don't need a Portugese home folder and this doesn't answer my question.

3. There is no User Template folder in the Library folder of the Systems folder. Should I drag it into the Library folder of the Systems folder?


I just noticed that there are now two: one with the Portugese docs in the Library folder of the hd, where I originally found it, and one with the red circle and dash in the hd where I dragged it out of the trash before I put it back into the Library file. The folder with the Portugese documents doesn't seem to be the appropriate contents of a User Template file, so should I put it in the trash and drag the file with the red circle into the Library folder of the System file?

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