Re: move your home directory

In article <1124235161.033794.201290@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
testafoto@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>So i used the Unix commands in the article above to move my Home
>Directory to my new hard drive. The process copied over all my data
>from the home directory, and i still have administrator privileges so
>something worked correctory.

Actually, if you look in the 'Get Info' panel for that Volume, and you
see that 'Ignore ownership on this volume' is checked, then basically
everyone has root on it. Probably not the same as 'administrator
privileges'. Heh.

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