and just that quickly–using some shell script with zero knowledge of how it works–I made some pretty catastrophic changes that seems to have deleted, well, all of my documents, preferences, etc.! Dropbox folder gone too. Thankfully my backup game is on point, and I run fairly lean. Whoops!
As an aside, anyone know where system preferences live? Things like scroll direction, dock placement, etc.? If it’s in the home folder I’m good, if not I’m starting over 