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Moving your home folder to another drive
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
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cheers Mike Aiton BSc (hons) Audio Consultant, Dubbing Mixer/Sound Designer & Journalist BAFTA member IPS member ---------------------------------------------------------------------- www.mikerophonics.com |
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Wow - no one know the answer to this?
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cheers Mike Aiton BSc (hons) Audio Consultant, Dubbing Mixer/Sound Designer & Journalist BAFTA member IPS member ---------------------------------------------------------------------- www.mikerophonics.com |
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Re: Moving your home folder to another drive
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. |
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Re: Moving your home folder to another drive
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
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cheers Mike Aiton BSc (hons) Audio Consultant, Dubbing Mixer/Sound Designer & Journalist BAFTA member IPS member ---------------------------------------------------------------------- www.mikerophonics.com |
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Re: Moving your home folder to another drive
By home folder do you mean your user folder? Why would you want to move it anyways?
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Re: Moving your home folder to another drive
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
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cheers Mike Aiton BSc (hons) Audio Consultant, Dubbing Mixer/Sound Designer & Journalist BAFTA member IPS member ---------------------------------------------------------------------- www.mikerophonics.com |
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Re: Moving your home folder to another drive
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.
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Re: Moving your home folder to another drive
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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! |
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Re: Moving your home folder to another drive
mm - do have soundminer
may need more research on this
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cheers Mike Aiton BSc (hons) Audio Consultant, Dubbing Mixer/Sound Designer & Journalist BAFTA member IPS member ---------------------------------------------------------------------- www.mikerophonics.com |
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Re: Moving your home folder to another drive
AFAIK each of your partitions would have it's own set of users folders.
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