Files Appear in Dialogs Boxes that Aren't Actually on the Drive

[stephenmeade]

I have a very bizarre problem. This all started with me wanting to share some iWork '09 templates with a coworker. (On 10.6.1 btw)

The templates *should* be stored in Library->Application Support->iWork->Pages->MyTemplates

But through the finder, no such tree exists. I've got Library->Application Support->iWork'09 and that's it.

I opened up Pages and went to "Save as template..." By default it opens up a file picker dialog starts with the default template folder path above. I can navigate the tree in the file picker dialog (and all my template files are there) but in the finder no such directory exists.

I tried typing the name of my template files in spotlight and it can't find them. But I can open templates just fine in Pages.

What gives?

 

[jmck]

Are you sure you're looking at the same Library folder in both cases?

There's ~/Library -- at the root level of your Home folder

Then there's /Library -- at the root level of your boot drive

Then there's /System/Library -- just for grins I suppose...