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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1428120" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>You can relocate your user home folder entirely to the other drive if you like. Be aware that if that drives fails or gets replaced, you will not be able to use that user account and if that is the ONLY user account, then you can't log in at all. So… have a backup user with admin privileges as a safety net.</p><p></p><p>As for relocating your main user to the other drive:</p><p><a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2009/05/14/tuaw-tip-moving-your-home-folder-to-another-disk-or-moving-it/" target="_blank">TUAW Tip: Moving your home folder to another disk (or moving it back) | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog</a></p><p></p><p>If you don't want to move your entire home folder to the other drive, and just certain folders, then the best thing to do is to move those folders to the other drive, create symbolic links to them, and put the symlink where the OS "expects" to find the original folder. See instructions below for how to make these… be sure to rename the symlink so it matches the original folder name EXACTLY!</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/switcher-hangout/237962-new-imac-ssd-iphones-ipads-backup.html#post1234677" target="_blank">http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/switcher-hangout/237962-new-imac-ssd-iphones-ipads-backup.html#post1234677</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1428120, member: 38864"] You can relocate your user home folder entirely to the other drive if you like. Be aware that if that drives fails or gets replaced, you will not be able to use that user account and if that is the ONLY user account, then you can't log in at all. So… have a backup user with admin privileges as a safety net. As for relocating your main user to the other drive: [url=http://www.tuaw.com/2009/05/14/tuaw-tip-moving-your-home-folder-to-another-disk-or-moving-it/]TUAW Tip: Moving your home folder to another disk (or moving it back) | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog[/url] If you don't want to move your entire home folder to the other drive, and just certain folders, then the best thing to do is to move those folders to the other drive, create symbolic links to them, and put the symlink where the OS "expects" to find the original folder. See instructions below for how to make these… be sure to rename the symlink so it matches the original folder name EXACTLY! [url]http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/switcher-hangout/237962-new-imac-ssd-iphones-ipads-backup.html#post1234677[/url] [/QUOTE]
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