Comment by euroderf
2 years ago
A few years ago... I had stored some archives (more than ten years of personal stuff) directly under the file system root. A macos upgrade eliminated them. All of them. No warning in advance, no warning as it trashed my stuff. Really user-hostile.
You're saying you store personal stuff right at '/'? Apple did give warnings it was going to push forward with securing the rootfs.
Where ? Buried in some tech talk somewhere ? Hmph.
The right move would be to move it into /Users/softwareupdatefiles and require admin access to read (or something like that).