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Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Houston, TX
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Is it possible to move user folders to a second hard drive, apart from the drive containing Mac OS? I'd like to keep my OS drive just for the OS and applications. Then I would keep all the user files on the bigger second drive. Would that work? Can I just drag and drop the USERS folder to the new drive? I'm using 10.4.8 on a G5.
Thanks
(Last edited by BWSchultz; Jan 4, 2007 at 09:24 AM.
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Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Land of Enchantment
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You can have your users folder on another partition, including another drive.
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Junior Member
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Not to be too blunt, but how? How do I create a new user on another drive? If I create a new user now, it just goes by the rest of the users on my startup disk which is getting low on space. I have an external firewire drive that I would like to house new users on.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
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It's possible, but it's not necessarily easy. It would probably just be easier to store files on the external drive rather than move the Users folder itself. If you want to try moving it, there's a hint on Mac OS X Hints about it, but bear in mind that playing around with NetInfo can accidentally lock you out of your account if you mess with the wrong thing.
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Chuck
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2000
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I was able to move the user directory but the permissions won't stick. The user directories remain readable by other accounts. I did a chown as root but it still didn't take when I logged back in. Frustrating. I guess I'll just have to keep some user files public and some not. When a new user is created on the OS X disk, permissions are fine (the folders have the little red icons that denote denied access. But I can't get the permission to change on a user directory NOT on the startup disk. Oh well.
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Try doing a Get Info on the second drive and then seeing if the "Ignore ownership on this volume" box has been checked under Ownership & Permissions (it's on by default for external hard drives.)
Ed
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That may have been your very first post... but it was brilliant. I completely overlooked that. I'm giving it a shot now but I think that will do the trick. Thanks!
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that's a mess...
even if you accomplish what you want, some issues might appear.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Dec 2001
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I have had my Users folder on another drive (with a link from the startup drive) since 10.1, and it's never caused me a single problem. It is very simple to do (you only need a symbolic link) and everything works. I've even done clean installs without losing data.
It certainly isn't a mess.
Barney.
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Senior User
Join Date: Oct 2004
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nice to ear that!
could you give more details so that the OP can reproduce it, please?
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