User data outside of Home directory

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Originally Posted by dnanian

But it's not possible to know where more technical people will install variable items to...

Hmm, are you sure it's not less technical people who are more likely to install software in "random" locations on their systems? The default OS X user has admin privs with write access to the root directory so I'm guessing a fair number of pre-X users (especially) toss stuff there. In other words, I never underestimate the cleverness of someone non-technical to do things that baffle those of us who are more technical.

Thanks for confirming the Safety Clone issue with MySQL, et.al.