[poulh]

So I moved my home folder to an external firewire drive... changed netinfo mgr and made a symbolic link from the old place to the new one... everthing worked great until I forgot to turn on the fw drive when I started my iMac.

osX booted with the default looking desktop. Default dock, etc (basically what you get on a new mac). When I go to my home folder it says I am in the one inside the fw drive, but when I cmd-click on my user name at the top of the window the "Volumes" drive is grayed out even though I can get into my fw drive.

What do I do to get everthing working again?

Thanks!

[gorickey]

Have you restarted with your FW drive on?!?

[poulh]

Yep, restarted with the firewire drive on. The drive mounts on the desktop just fine, but when I apple-click on my user name at the top of my home folder and see the path, "Volumes" is grayed out, even though I can get to the drive.

I went to the Volumes folder vie the "go to folder" menu and there is this:


Macintosh HD: internal drive
Firewire: name of my firewire hd
Firewire 1: not sure what this one is
poulh: my username

[Moonray]

Depending on whether you linked /Users or /Users/poulh it might have added what it was missing when you booted without the external drive. If you moved and linked only your home folder there's no need to tell NetInfo Manager.

Look in the terminal what is in your /Users folder. Rename an existing poulh folder and ln -s the external one to there.

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[poulh]

Figured it out. When /Volumes/Firewire wasn't there... the os created it along w/ a new user folder... that was empty. My fw drive was then being mounted as Firewire-1 so it was now looking at the wrong path. Erasing the folder /Volumes/Firewire and restarting the computer fixed everything.