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I'll stop flooding the comments, but please note that if you follow the advice of any comment encouraging the "rm" command, you will screw up your computer again.

Here's the official way to restore hidden-ness to the /usr folder: 1) Start up from the install CD 2) Launch terminal (I believe from the Tools menu) 3) Enter the following three command lines, pressing return after each: cd /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ DVD/ cd System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg/Contents/Resources/ sudo ./SetHidden / hidden_MacOS9 4) Profit This is from from kbase 301677. Anyway, I find this article somewhat silly and entirely inflammatory. The issue was caused by a third-party utility. Don't blame Apple. As well, common sense says "don't delete a folder without looking inside." You said something like "I already have a users folder," but this folder was NOT named "User," it was "usr." If you try to pronounce its name, it may sound like "user," but the similarities end there. Also, if you'd looked inside or measured its size, you'd have found quite a bit of stuff. Not knowing what it isis a hell of a reason to delete. Finally, your comments about the Mac's intuitive-ness are quite forced. "If you were a novice user..." Well, from this article you seem to be. An web search did provide information, and I hardly can understand why you'd mention that you hadn't thought of it as an argument against Apple. And it isn't mentioned in manuals precisely because no Apple program makes it visible, and the average user shouldn't have to touch it.