to an external disk.

http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-move-the-home-folder-in-os-x-and-why/

I tried it for an account I just use for surfing www and Usenet. Seems 
to work fine.

What do you think? Good idea, pros and cons?

SK.

In article <4d9044c2$0$18231$e4fe514c@dreader29.news.xs4all.nl>,
 SY <205sk@accessforall.invalid> wrote:

> to an external disk.
> 
> http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-move-the-home-folder-in-os-x-and-why/
> 
> I tried it for an account I just use for surfing www and Usenet. Seems 
> to work fine.
> 
> What do you think? Good idea, pros and cons?
> 
> SK.

Ignoring the fact that following his directions may result in insecure 
permissions on the copied home folder and its contents, if the hard 
drive holding those files isn't available  100% of the time while the OS 
is running, bad things can happen. Unless you are prepared to ensure the 
hard drive holding those files will never, ever be unavailable, or 
unless you are prepared to deal with the potential consequences if and 
when it does become unavailable, I wouldn't recommend it, personally.

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SY wrote:
> to an external disk.
> 
> http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-move-the-home-folder-in-os-x-and-why/
> 
> I tried it for an account I just use for surfing www and Usenet. Seems 
> to work fine.
> 
> What do you think? Good idea, pros and cons?

I think that nothing succeeds like success. If it has been working to
your satisfaction for some time, it would seem that there are no cons.
If you did this hours ago you will simply have to wait and see if some
esoteric glitch pops up later.

Davoud

-- 
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

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In article <4d9044c2$0$18231$e4fe514c@dreader29.news.xs4all.nl>, SY
<205sk@accessforall.invalid> wrote:

> to an external disk.
> 
> http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-move-the-home-folder-in-os-x-and-why/
> 
> I tried it for an account I just use for surfing www and Usenet. Seems 
> to work fine.
> 
> What do you think? Good idea, pros and cons?

generally, a bad idea. why do you want to move it? what problems were
you having with it in the default location?

In article <280320110947048738%nospam@nospam.invalid>,
 nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> In article <4d9044c2$0$18231$e4fe514c@dreader29.news.xs4all.nl>, SY
> <205sk@accessforall.invalid> wrote:
> 
> > to an external disk.
> > 
> > http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-move-the-home-folder-in-os-x-and-why/
> > 
> > I tried it for an account I just use for surfing www and Usenet. Seems 
> > to work fine.
> > 
> > What do you think? Good idea, pros and cons?
> 
> generally, a bad idea. why do you want to move it? what problems were
> you having with it in the default location?

No problems. I did move it to a 500 GB partition, because there's more 
space there then on my internal hard drive (80 GB). Just an experiment. 
If it goes wrong, nothing's lost.

SK.

In article <280320110939075654%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.net> 
wrote:

> SY wrote:
> > to an external disk.
> > 
> > http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-move-the-home-folder-in-os-x-and-why/
> > 
> > I tried it for an account I just use for surfing www and Usenet. Seems 
> > to work fine.
> > 
> > What do you think? Good idea, pros and cons?
> 
> I think that nothing succeeds like success. If it has been working to
> your satisfaction for some time, it would seem that there are no cons.
> If you did this hours ago you will simply have to wait and see if some
> esoteric glitch pops up later.
> 
> Davoud

Exactly, so far so good!
SK.

In article <4d90a901$0$18235$e4fe514c@dreader29.news.xs4all.nl>, SY
<205sk@accessforall.invalid> wrote:

> > > What do you think? Good idea, pros and cons?
> > 
> > generally, a bad idea. why do you want to move it? what problems were
> > you having with it in the default location?
> 
> No problems.

so no reason to move it.

> I did move it to a 500 GB partition, because there's more 
> space there then on my internal hard drive (80 GB). Just an experiment. 
> If it goes wrong, nothing's lost.

why not put the space consuming files on the other partition,
particularly music and videos. itunes doesn't care where that stuff is.
no need to move the entire home folder. in fact, almost nothing has to
be in your home folder, other than what's in the library hierarchy.

In article <280320111156485776%nospam@nospam.invalid>,
 nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> In article <4d90a901$0$18235$e4fe514c@dreader29.news.xs4all.nl>, SY
> <205sk@accessforall.invalid> wrote:
> 
> > > > What do you think? Good idea, pros and cons?
> > > 
> > > generally, a bad idea. why do you want to move it? what problems were
> > > you having with it in the default location?
> > 
> > No problems.
> 
> so no reason to move it.
> 
> > I did move it to a 500 GB partition, because there's more 
> > space there then on my internal hard drive (80 GB). Just an experiment. 
> > If it goes wrong, nothing's lost.
> 
> why not put the space consuming files on the other partition,
> particularly music and videos. itunes doesn't care where that stuff is.
> no need to move the entire home folder. in fact, almost nothing has to
> be in your home folder, other than what's in the library hierarchy.

Did that. More than 40 GB of music on one Firewire drive. iPhoto library 
is not exactly small and is kept on another drive, including original 
holiday pics, pics without EXIF info and compressed pics. Those alone 
would fill up my boot drive quickly. I just don't like other stuff like 
caches and and what have you to fill up the hard drive as well.

SK.

In article <4d90a901$0$18235$e4fe514c@dreader29.news.xs4all.nl>,
 SY <205sk@accessforall.invalid> wrote:

> In article <280320110947048738%nospam@nospam.invalid>,
>  nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> 
> > In article <4d9044c2$0$18231$e4fe514c@dreader29.news.xs4all.nl>, SY
> > <205sk@accessforall.invalid> wrote:
> > 
> > > to an external disk.
> > > 
> > > http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-move-the-home-folder-in-os-x-and-why/
> > > 
> > > I tried it for an account I just use for surfing www and Usenet. Seems 
> > > to work fine.
> > > 
> > > What do you think? Good idea, pros and cons?
> > 
> > generally, a bad idea. why do you want to move it? what problems were
> > you having with it in the default location?
> 
> No problems. I did move it to a 500 GB partition, because there's more 
> space there then on my internal hard drive (80 GB). Just an experiment. 
> If it goes wrong, nothing's lost.

If you use directories within your home, you can move the directories to another 
drive and use soft links from your home to other drive. You can leave log in 
critical information like parts of ~/Library, ~/bin, etc on the root drive. If 
the external drive becomes unavailable, at least your home won't lock up.

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In article <280320110939075654%star@sky.net>,
 Davoud <star@sky.net> wrote:

....

Do you support the way the Israelis have kicked off Beduin 
farmers from land they have occupied for over a century (and even 
have title documentation in some cases), citing bullshit about 
this land being uncultivated and vacant. Does this racist state 
know no bounds?

-- 
dorayme

dorayme wrote:
> In article <280320110939075654%star@sky.net>,
>  Davoud <star@sky.net> wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> Do you support the way the Israelis have kicked off Beduin 
> farmers from land they have occupied for over a century (and even 
> have title documentation in some cases), citing bullshit about 
> this land being uncultivated and vacant. Does this racist state 
> know no bounds?

Davoud wrote what? What /are/ you talking about? Whatever it is, what
does it have to do with /me/ ?

Davoud

-- 
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

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In article <280320111829005877%star@sky.net>,
 Davoud <star@sky.net> wrote:

> dorayme wrote:
> > In article <280320110939075654%star@sky.net>,
> >  Davoud <star@sky.net> wrote:
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > Do you support the way the Israelis have kicked off Beduin 
> > farmers from land they have occupied for over a century (and even 
> > have title documentation in some cases), citing bullshit about 
> > this land being uncultivated and vacant. Does this racist state 
> > know no bounds?
> 
> Davoud wrote what? What /are/ you talking about? Whatever it is, what
> does it have to do with /me/ ?

Aren't you the ex Israeli diplomat who was not going to read any 
of my fouled languaged posts anymore and who accused me of not 
knowing the subtleties of the politics over there? Or is it just 
me who is losing it. <g>

-- 
dorayme

SY <205sk@accessforall.invalid> wrote:
> to an external disk.
> 
> http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-move-the-home-folder-in-os-x-and-why/
> 
> I tried it for an account I just use for surfing www and Usenet. Seems 
> to work fine.
> 
> What do you think? Good idea, pros and cons?

For the most part, completely un-needed. There's really no reason to do it,
but also no reason not to do it,

-- 
this is not a signture

dorayme:
> Aren't you the ex Israeli diplomat who was not going to read any 
> of my fouled languaged posts anymore and who accused me of not 
> knowing the subtleties of the politics over there? Or is it just 
> me who is losing it. <g>

No, I'm the retired American diplomat who served in Israel. And you
still don't know the subtleties--and not so subtle stuff--about the
Muddle East. Bedouin farmers? That's an oxymoron. Bedouin nomadic
herdsmen is the phrase you were looking for--even if they do sometimes
carry their camels about in pickup trucks.

As for the kill-file, with seven Macs in the house, one can't always
keep track of who's killed where. <g>

Davoud

-- 
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm

On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:28:22 -0400, SY wrote
(in article <4d90a931$0$18235$e4fe514c@dreader29.news.xs4all.nl>):

> In article <280320110939075654%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.net> 
> wrote:
> 
>> SY wrote:
>>> to an external disk.
>>> 
>>> http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-move-the-home-folder-in-os-x-and-why/
>>> 
>>> I tried it for an account I just use for surfing www and Usenet. Seems 
>>> to work fine.
>>> 
>>> What do you think? Good idea, pros and cons?
>> 
>> I think that nothing succeeds like success. If it has been working to
>> your satisfaction for some time, it would seem that there are no cons.
>> If you did this hours ago you will simply have to wait and see if some
>> esoteric glitch pops up later.
>> 
>> Davoud
> 
> Exactly, so far so good!
> SK.

So said the man who jumped off the twenty story building as he passed 
the 10 floor.

-- 
Nelson