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Help. Where is home?
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Rochester NY
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Help.
Ages ago I used the bombich code to move my home directory, and (after some isuues) It has been working fine. Until today that is.
I woke my Mac from sleep (Jag: 10.2.8) and nothing happened. forced a reboot, and my home is now where it used to be on my boot drive. My second drive is still visible and the preffered home folder is still there, with all my prefs and files and folders still there.
How do I point my computer to that home folder again? I'm afraid to just use the bombich code again, as I worry that may create a whole new home folder and eradicate the one I want.
Any Ideas? Thanks.
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“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.” -- William Hazlitt
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Dec 2000
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Open NetInfo Manager, edit the Home field in /Users/YourUserName/ to the path to your preferred home folder.
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My name's ...uh... it's a bummer man.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Rochester NY
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I should have mentioned that I tried that. It was all correct. logged out and in. no go. But thanks. Any other ideas?
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“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.” -- William Hazlitt
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Rochester NY
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Any one else? Please.
Whimper whimper
sob sob
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“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.” -- William Hazlitt
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Capital city of the Empire State.
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Try this. Open up a Terminal window and type:
sudo ditto -rsrc [path_to_your_old_Home_folder] /Users/[your_username]
After that, repair permissions.
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"I sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you cheer up."
MacBook Pro 15"/2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo/4 GB DDR2 SDRAM/200 GB Hitachi HD/8x SuperDrive/Mac OS X 10.6.1
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
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Originally posted by spauldingg:
Any one else? Please.
Whimper whimper
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It probably installed a new /uses folder and overwrote your link to the other Volume. Try doing the "sudo ln -s /Volumes/OtherPartition/Users /Users" part again.
Alternatively you can try just linking your single user folder (that's the more versatile solution) with something like "ln -s /Volumes/otherpartition/Users/yourname /Users/yourname" (move the existing yourname folder aside first).
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2001
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The other thing that can happen is if something gets screwy when drives are mounting, your drive can show up with the wrong name and then your home directory won't be mounted.
Check in /volumes and see if your hard drive named "myhd" is now named "myhd 1".
Wade
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Rochester NY
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Thanks for your help.
Seems I tried my own little "experiments" and fouled things beyond my abilities to repair.
So I guess I'll just wipe the main partition and reinstall Jag from scratch and then redo the bombich hack.. I'm Just afraid I might wipe out needed stuff (mail, junk filters, etc). i don't have any extra large drives to just do a total backup, so can anyone help with info or links that tell me exactly what to save from my boot drive, and what to do with my existing moved home folder while I do this?
thanks again.
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