Comments on: Move your home directory to another location http://osxdaily.com/2010/02/16/move-your-home-directory-to-another-location/ News, tips, software, reviews, and more for Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad Fri, 25 May 2012 00:34:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dan http://osxdaily.com/2010/02/16/move-your-home-directory-to-another-location/#comment-369334 Dan Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:50:41 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=2459#comment-369334 I confirmed that it advanced user options works in OS LION, be sure to unlock the padlock prior. I confirmed that it advanced user options works in OS LION, be sure to unlock the padlock prior.

]]> By: Philip http://osxdaily.com/2010/02/16/move-your-home-directory-to-another-location/#comment-229178 Philip Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:09:06 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=2459#comment-229178 It does work in Lion. Did you unlock the controlpanel before you control clicked? It does work in Lion. Did you unlock the controlpanel before you control clicked?

]]> By: Laurent http://osxdaily.com/2010/02/16/move-your-home-directory-to-another-location/#comment-227267 Laurent Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:23:03 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=2459#comment-227267 Yes but the control click on the user doesn't work under OSX lion anymore. How to get around it? Yes but the control click on the user doesn’t work under OSX lion anymore. How to get around it?

]]> By: Greg http://osxdaily.com/2010/02/16/move-your-home-directory-to-another-location/#comment-173339 Greg Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:23:15 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=2459#comment-173339 Yeah, but it can be a really good idea if you want to use File Vault, and you're already over 50% of your boot drive capacity, and the reason has nothing to do with Music/Movies/Pictures. Yeah, but it can be a really good idea if you want to use File Vault, and you’re already over 50% of your boot drive capacity, and the reason has nothing to do with Music/Movies/Pictures.

]]> By: Ulrich http://osxdaily.com/2010/02/16/move-your-home-directory-to-another-location/#comment-99917 Ulrich Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:12:24 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=2459#comment-99917 It's not really a good idea to move your entire home folder to another drive if you want to gain significant speedups from an SSD since lots of small config etc. files are stored inside your home/Library/... folders. Instead just move the big stuff (Pictures, Movies, Music) to another drive and symlink them back to your home folder. It’s not really a good idea to move your entire home folder to another drive if you want to gain significant speedups from an SSD since lots of small config etc. files are stored inside your home/Library/… folders.

Instead just move the big stuff (Pictures, Movies, Music) to another drive and symlink them back to your home folder.

]]> By: Kemmon http://osxdaily.com/2010/02/16/move-your-home-directory-to-another-location/#comment-99799 Kemmon Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:32:56 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=2459#comment-99799 Moving home folders is a great way to establish disk quotas on a shared machine. I have four kids who share a Mac, so the drive has 5 partitions: One for the OS, and one for each kid. Their home folders are on their own partition, which sets a hard limit on how much disk space they can hog, and the OS partition is frozen with ARDs Deep Freeze. Permissions keeps each partition private form the others. 4 Kids sharing a Mac and NO maintenance issues for over 3 years! And if I ever want to do a clean install of the OS, I can re-format the OS partition without touching any home folders. Moving home folders is a great way to establish disk quotas on a shared machine. I have four kids who share a Mac, so the drive has 5 partitions: One for the OS, and one for each kid. Their home folders are on their own partition, which sets a hard limit on how much disk space they can hog, and the OS partition is frozen with ARDs Deep Freeze. Permissions keeps each partition private form the others. 4 Kids sharing a Mac and NO maintenance issues for over 3 years! And if I ever want to do a clean install of the OS, I can re-format the OS partition without touching any home folders.

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