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Installed second HD, now what?
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Aug 3, 2005, 09:24 PM
 
Got an 80GB boot drive and notices it fills up pretty quick so installed a second 160GB HD.
Now, how do I make my user folder to point to my second hard drive to avoid having 2 movie, music and picture folders in my computer?
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Aug 12, 2005, 03:20 PM
 
The easiest way I know is to simply make an Alias, and put the real folder on the second drive. I don't know if there's a way to truely assign the user folder a seperate location. UNIX is fairly orderly about things like that.
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Aug 14, 2005, 10:52 PM
 
Alias the Movie, Music, and Pictures folders to the 2nd HD, like SirCastor suggests. You can use NetInfo Manager to change your user location to the other HD, but if the 2nd HD should ever fail to mount, you would be unable to log into your user account. Using the alias method is safer.
     
   
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