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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1244279" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>You can force OS X to write to a different drive using symbolic links, which may be more preferable to moving the Home folder entirely. I'm actually working on a blog entry centered around this thread:</p><p><a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/switcher-hangout/237962-new-imac-ssd-iphones-ipads-backup.html" target="_blank">http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/switcher-hangout/237962-new-imac-ssd-iphones-ipads-backup.html</a></p><p></p><p>The option of moving the Home folder entirely has me intrigued and I may re-work the blog entry I'm working on to demonstrate both options. idrinorbarsaku brings up some good points about how moving the Home folder will affect backups, which has me wondering the same about symlinks. Since I'm in the process of working on the blog entry, I'll look into this more thoroughly.</p><p></p><p>As an aside, I tested out moving the Home folder for one of my test accounts, and it worked, but when I moved it back I introduced some permissions issues in the user Library, easily resolved though. I'll have to re-test all that… the first move may have had permission issues that I didn't notice. The thread linked to does reference that possibility of happening.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1244279, member: 38864"] You can force OS X to write to a different drive using symbolic links, which may be more preferable to moving the Home folder entirely. I'm actually working on a blog entry centered around this thread: [url]http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/switcher-hangout/237962-new-imac-ssd-iphones-ipads-backup.html[/url] The option of moving the Home folder entirely has me intrigued and I may re-work the blog entry I'm working on to demonstrate both options. idrinorbarsaku brings up some good points about how moving the Home folder will affect backups, which has me wondering the same about symlinks. Since I'm in the process of working on the blog entry, I'll look into this more thoroughly. As an aside, I tested out moving the Home folder for one of my test accounts, and it worked, but when I moved it back I introduced some permissions issues in the user Library, easily resolved though. I'll have to re-test all that… the first move may have had permission issues that I didn't notice. The thread linked to does reference that possibility of happening. [/QUOTE]
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