So in this video, we're going to explain what the user template folder is now, for those of you with
a UNIX Linux background, it's similar to what we refer to as the skeleton folder.
In other words, it is a folder that is used to create the user profile for user when they log in for
the first time.
Now, on this test machine, we have three accounts.
And if we do a listing of the user's folder, you can see that we only have a profile folder for the
administrator and the user.
Hi Sierra.
We do not have a user folder for the demo user.
So that means that the demo user has not logged in yet.
So when the demo user logs in, his profile is going to be generated from the library template folder.
So let's go ahead and take a look at that now to look at it, you're you need pseudo permissions or
permission.
So we're going to do we're going to change the pseudo route and then we're going to go and change to
system library user template.
And then this depends on the your language.
But for me, it's going to be English.
And now if we do a listing here, you can see that this looks a lot like a home folder.
So you've got your desktop library, movies, music, pictures in public.
So let's go ahead and let's enter the desktop folder and let's go ahead and create a new text file called
High Dot Text.
And let's go ahead and go into it and then write a little.
No.
And let's go ahead and say that now let's go ahead and log in as the demo user.
And so while we're waiting for the log in, let's go ahead and get out of the desktop folder and let's
talk about what we did in the previous video where we captured preferences.
Now, those preferences were working the way that we wanted to work while we were logged in and the
list file that we that we saved and that other folder that we saved, basically, if those appear the
same way on other user accounts, that that the VLCC application will behave the same way.
So what we want to do is put those in the template folder and.
So we would end up going to the library and then preferences and then take a look over here and this
is where we would want to put it.
Now, remember, the demo user had never logged in and we created a text file in the template.
And there's the content of the text file that we generated.
So anything that we put into the user library template folder will end up for any user that logs into
a computer for the first time.
Now, if I go ahead and log in as administrator or high Sierra, I'm not going to get this file on my
desktop because my user profile was already created.