Moving your home folder to another drive

[MIKEROPHONICS]

Dear Mac Sages

If I were to boldly move (whoops - a split infinitive) my home folder to another drive, does this affect my Pro Tools HD?

cheers

[MIKEROPHONICS]

Wow - no one know the answer to this?

[agypsy]

you might run into problems just moving it. what is it you're trying to accomplish exactly?
are you trying to make a copy of it onto another drive or do you actually want to move where the folder actually exists.

i think you should try and make a clone of your system hard drive. i used "carbon copy" (recommended by someone here) to make a clone of my system.

[MIKEROPHONICS]

I have Super Duper and will of course clone. I am happy moving my home folder, I am just not sure of the implications re PT. AFAIK PT just has to have an admin account to work - does it care where your home folder is?

cheers

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by MIKEROPHONICS

Dear Mac Sages

If I were to boldly move (whoops - a split infinitive) my home folder to another drive, does this affect my Pro Tools HD?

cheers

By home folder do you mean your user folder? Why would you want to move it anyways?

[MIKEROPHONICS]

I have multiple partitions, Snow Leopard for PT, Snow Leopard for Media Composer, Leopard for PT (various versions). I wish to be able to access my home folder easily from all.

cheers

[D'Animation]

Careful with the 'Library' folder - I know your a post-guy and for example, I know Soundminer keeps all its databases and prefs there for a start (and I think I've seen Propellerhead Reason files in there too). Would it be worth just moving your itunes/movies/documents folders elsewhere and leave the more 'system' based ones as is? Not exactly what your after but you could have major instability issues cropping up otherwise.

[D'Animation]

Originally Posted by D'Animation

Careful with the 'Library' folder - I know your a post-guy and for example, I know Soundminer keeps all its databases and prefs there for a start (and I think I've seen Propellerhead Reason files in there too). Would it be worth just moving your itunes/movies/documents folders elsewhere and leave the more 'system' based ones as is? Not exactly what your after but you could have major instability issues cropping up otherwise.

Actually, forgot about this but not sure how it will work for individual OS partitions and software data within the library folder
Try System Preferences/Accounts & control click your user a/c - theres an option to set the path for your user folder under advanced settings. Wouldn't advise it without full cloned BU's of everything of course!

[MIKEROPHONICS]

mm - do have soundminer

may need more research on this

[HD2]

Originally Posted by MIKEROPHONICS

I have multiple partitions, Snow Leopard for PT, Snow Leopard for Media Composer, Leopard for PT (various versions). I wish to be able to access my home folder easily from all.

cheers

AFAIK each of your partitions would have it's own set of users folders.