I am using OSX Lion and every time I tried to cd to my Desktop folder using "cd ~" and cd "Desktop" it stays in my home directory instead of going to Desktop. I've tried to perform the commands using sudo but it makes no difference.
Thanks.
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Using the sudo command will grant access to any folder or file on the Mac.
The commands sudo cd ~ return and sudo cd Desktop return only appeared to fail. In fact, both commands succeeded but exited without any output.
To demonstrate this try the command sudo -i "cd ~;pwd"return which should print /var/root in the terminal window.
In order to use the same commands interactively, do following:
sudo -ireturncd ~returnpwdreturn
Output
/var/root
pwdand press Enter, what is the output? (Star out username if you want)ls?cd ~/Documentswork ?pwdI realized I was in another user's home folder. That's why I couldn't access the home folder. But I am the administrator, why can't I access the other standard user's folder, even withsudo? It looks like their Public folder is the only one I could access.sudodoesn't mean you own the files from other users. Permissions still apply.