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Moving the Home folder to external drive..... Catalina nightmares...
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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1873775" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>First, kudos for setting up a separate "troubleshooting" account kept clean and only used in emergencies. I wish more users followed that advice. </p><p></p><p>I first read about users doing this in the early days of OS X. I'm going to mention a few things you might have already checked. Based upon what I read at the time, here are a few things that could be causing problems:</p><p></p><p>1. Is the external drive on at the time you are trying to log into your account? I'm wondering if the external drive has fully spun up when the OS needs to access it.</p><p></p><p>2. Since you can log in to one account but not the other one, I wonder if something is putting the drive to sleep in one account but not the other one.</p><p></p><p>3. I assume you've checked the external drive with Disk First Aid.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1873775, member: 131855"] First, kudos for setting up a separate "troubleshooting" account kept clean and only used in emergencies. I wish more users followed that advice. I first read about users doing this in the early days of OS X. I'm going to mention a few things you might have already checked. Based upon what I read at the time, here are a few things that could be causing problems: 1. Is the external drive on at the time you are trying to log into your account? I'm wondering if the external drive has fully spun up when the OS needs to access it. 2. Since you can log in to one account but not the other one, I wonder if something is putting the drive to sleep in one account but not the other one. 3. I assume you've checked the external drive with Disk First Aid. [/QUOTE]
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