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relocation of Users folder
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<blockquote data-quote="teckenny" data-source="post: 1650525" data-attributes="member: 248004"><p><strong>More information...</strong></p><p></p><p>Hi chscag - Thanks for your quick response.</p><p></p><p>Because the iMacs in question are bound to the student domain within our organisation this means when a student logs in using their Active Directory credentials for the first time on a particular iMac the system automatically creates an account in Macintosh HD/Users. These machines are used by numerous students enrolled on a number of various courses. Allocating specific local accounts to specific students on each iMac would be unmanageable. Our organisation demands all students authenticate via AD whether they are using a mac or a pc</p><p>Disk space is a problem - a large number of the students using these macs will be using Final Cut Pro X to edit hi-def film projects</p><p>By default Final Cut Pro X saves the users projects in the users Movies folder within their Home directory on the Macintosh HD. Our continuing problem is ensuring that students point their projects from the first instance to another drive or partition. If they don't (and there are always some !) the Macintosh HD soon fills up - often to the point where the System cannot operate and we have to boot from an system on external drive or use the Recovery partition to allow us to move student accounts to an other drive or partition to free up space. </p><p>The best solution would be to change the default location of the Users directory</p><p></p><p>Sorry about the length of this <img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Smirk.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":Smirk:" title="Smirk :Smirk:" data-shortname=":Smirk:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="teckenny, post: 1650525, member: 248004"] [b]More information...[/b] Hi chscag - Thanks for your quick response. Because the iMacs in question are bound to the student domain within our organisation this means when a student logs in using their Active Directory credentials for the first time on a particular iMac the system automatically creates an account in Macintosh HD/Users. These machines are used by numerous students enrolled on a number of various courses. Allocating specific local accounts to specific students on each iMac would be unmanageable. Our organisation demands all students authenticate via AD whether they are using a mac or a pc Disk space is a problem - a large number of the students using these macs will be using Final Cut Pro X to edit hi-def film projects By default Final Cut Pro X saves the users projects in the users Movies folder within their Home directory on the Macintosh HD. Our continuing problem is ensuring that students point their projects from the first instance to another drive or partition. If they don't (and there are always some !) the Macintosh HD soon fills up - often to the point where the System cannot operate and we have to boot from an system on external drive or use the Recovery partition to allow us to move student accounts to an other drive or partition to free up space. The best solution would be to change the default location of the Users directory Sorry about the length of this :Smirk: [/QUOTE]
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