Re: Moving the USERS folder
- From: rlaughton@xxxxxxxxxxx (Ray Laughton)
- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:17:31 +0100
<jambay53@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is it technically possible under OS X to move the Users folder to a
> different partition or drive?
>
> If yes......is it *advisable*? :-)
>
> I've tried to simply drag the Users folder to another
> partition.......the OS gave an error, more or less saying it couldn't
> be done.
>
> Curiously, there was a posting on this group about 3 years ago stating
> that the NetInfo Manager utility is used to move (or re-link) the Users
> folder. Is that still the case?
>
> Cheers,
> Jason Paris
This post motivated me to try something I've been meaning to do for
ages: Copy my OS (10.2.8) to another HD, for backup purposes. Like we
were able to do in about 3 minutes pre-OS X, just drag and drop the
system folder to the new HD..
First of all, it takes ages, because the Mac OS is now about 100 times
larger and there are a couple of folders to move.
Secondly, it doesnt work because as owner (!) of this Mac I don't have
the necessary permissions, etc, etc to move certain files..
I've just read elsewhere in this thread that I should have done it as
root user. Hmm...
Does this mean all _complete_ HD backups have to be done at root level?
I know most automated b/ups use the incremental system so then it
shouldnt be necessary.
RL
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