~ Tilde appearing in file path rather than users name?

[a_holley]

Hi all,

We use the custom search path option to collect inventory information about applications installed in the local user accounts on our iMacs.
In the past, it used to display as /$username/Desktop/Spotify.app for example. Now, it's coming up at ~/Desktop/Spotify.app

We use hot desks, so the computers can have many many users, and this makes it impossible to find out where these rogue apps are being stored.

I have searched around but can't work out what has caused the change or how I can get it to display the username again.

Has anyone else noticed this and can it be fixed?

Thanks

[bramstedtb]

Jamf switched to using the tilde instead of the full path in 10.9. From the release notes: "Jamf Pro now uses Unix user paths by default to save space in the application details database table." I don't think there's a way to change it.

[a_holley]

@bramstedtb thanks, good to know. Super frustrating though!

[craig_hopkins · Accepted solution]

If you goto Settings > Computer Management > Inventory collection > Software > Applications you can uncheck Enable Unix User Paths which I think will put it back to how it was (once the computer updates inventory that is)