Moving User Home Location

I am trying to set up a new iMac with SSD and HD. I have just migrated from another iMac. The migration moved everything to the SSD which is now quite full. I need to move my data and user folders to the HD. Can anyone advise how this should be done.
Regards

Contrary to what others might say there is no problem moving a home dir to another volume. I've been doing it since 10.1.
Here's some references:
Relocating the Home Directory Off the Boot Drive
How to Move the Home Folder in OS X – and Why
I use an SSD as a boot drive and would never consider putting my home dir on there. Ok I didn't do it before SSD either. By placing your home dir on another drive you can interchange boot drives while continuing to use your same home dir.

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Change Documents location without moving entire home location

OK, heres the situation. I am setting up Macs at a school that uses Active Directory. We have a XServe. They want the OSX Documents location to be the AD network home location.
Easy enough and i can set this up no problems, but we don't want the entire OSX home folder to move, just the documents.
The pupils use the same username on both windows and OSX so we want exactly the same documents folder on both OS's. Sounds like it should be simple right!
Current setup:-
AD/OD macs signing in using AD usernames and policies applied from xserve.
Currently i have the AD documents mounted on the doc, the only problem with this is there is no easy way to save directly to this as the AD documents folder is several folders down the list on the windows server.
All Mac's and the Xserve are running latest versions of OSx..
Windows is handling the DHCP and DNS. Xserve has AFP SMB and OD setup on it.
Any help greatly received as i am mainly a windows guy, on a steep learning curve on Macs.

How are the shares named? Are they all on the same directory? Such as "smb://student/server/student_name ?
What about the AD? Are the login names the same as the name of the student's share?
If so, you can try writing a login script that grabs the name of the user that just logged in, using the $1 variable, and have it create a symbolic link. I'm not to familiar with login scripts, but something along the lines of this should do:
*sudo mount smb://student/server/$1*
*ln -s /Users/$1/Documents /Volumes/$1/Documents/*
Once again, I would have someone check that, since I am not to familiar with login scripts.
Also, take a look at this, it may be helpful. http://www.thursby.com/products/admitmac.html

Moved User Home Folder to External - What to do with iTunes settings?

I used these instructions to move my User Home Folder off Mac hard drive and onto an external hard drive http://mac.tutsplus.com/tutorials/os-x/relocate-your-home-folder-to-another-driv e-or-volume. Do I need to go into advanced settings of iTunes and change the location to the external or do I just keep the location the same as before the move via these instructions?

turingtest2 wrote:
OK. The following should clear up your particular scenario. I strongly recommend you backup the whole iTunes folder to another drive first. When you're happy everything is tidy and working properly you can make a backup of the "clean" library before deleting the backup of the "duplicated" one.
In iTunes > Preferences > Advanced turn off both the Keep... & Copy... options.
Use File > Add Folder to Library... to add in the media folder, this ensures iTunes is connected to both copies of the files.
Create a new smart playlist with the rule Location is on this computer.
3a. Select the new smart playlist
Hold down Option and then click View > Display Exact Duplicate items.
Sort the list by Date Added
Select everything that you've just added with today's date, then press Option-Delete to remove from the library, send to the trash when asked
Use View > Show All Items and then Option > View > Show Exact Duplicate Items to reveal any remaining duplicates.
If needed, sort by Name and keep one of each repeat group, using Option-Delete to remove any dupes
In iTunes > Preferences > Advanced turn on both the Keep... & Copy... options to clean up all the trailing " 1"s
tt2

Moving user home directory to another partition on same hard drive

I would like to find a way to move the user home directory off the OS partition and over to a new partition on the same hard drive. I then would want to create a time machine to back up the new partition containing the user home directory to a 3rd partition called "backup". I have partitioned the hard drive as follows 1. OS, 2. DATA, 3. Backup. I copied the user home directory to the DATA partition but do not have access\permission to the files\folders now on DATA partition. After getting this permission issue resolved, I would like to create a time machine using the DATA partition as the source that needs to be backed up to "backup". How can this be done? I have 20 of these MacBook Pro's that I need to do the same config for. My company will not allow external drive for time machine\data storage. In a real bind. Appreciate any help.

I would like to find a way to move the user home directory off the OS partition and over to a new partition on the same hard drive.
That's possible, with some moderately low-level hacking of your system, and some people do it, but IMHO it is an extremely bad idea. It increases complexity with no positive benefits, which is never a good thing. Leave the user folder where it is.
I then would want to create a time machine to back up the new partition containing the user home directory to a 3rd partition called "backup".
You could call it "trout" instead. 'Cause it's just as much a trout as it is a backup! If you store the backup on the same physical device as the original, it's not a backup. What happens if the drive fails? Both are gone. What happens if the machine is stolen? What happens if there's a fire? A power surge? Someone spills coffee in it? You get the idea.
See my [Mac Backup Guide|http://www.reedcorner.net/thomas/guides/backups> for some help figuring out a decent backup strategy.
My company will not allow external drive for time machine\data storage.
Your company is managed by fools, then. Sorry to be so blunt, but if they are prohibiting you from backing up company data, it's the unvarnished truth. Feel free to tell them I said so.
Sooner or later, someone will lose data because of something as simple as a hard drive failure... and who do you think will take the bullet for that? The guy who denied you resources for backups, or the guy who set up the machines (ie, you)? You really don't want to be left holding that bag. Go on record saying that backups are needed. If they are denied, document it and then go over his head.
If you've got 20 company machines, all containing company data, then there needs to be a centralized backup scheme... probably a tape drive and something like Retrospect to coordinate and maintain backups across all machines through the network. Nearly two decades ago I set up a system like that to keep about 50 Macs backed up... it wasn't cheap, but nobody lost data on my watch!

Moving User Home Folder to External Drive

I'm using 10.3.6 and over a year ago (maybe 2) I found a trick (in a magazine and on the web in a few places) to move my user folder to an external firewire drive. I haven't been able to find it since. In a fit of New Year's cleaning I accidentally disconnected the firewire drive while the system was running. Upon restart the system had created a new user folder for me back on the startup drive. All my files are still in the user folder on the FWHD.
I looked in the NetInfo Manager and it shows my home property as being on the external drive with the correct path. I also deleted the property and re-added it thinking that might make it take a look again. Nope.
I've deleted/renamed the newly created file. But it just creates a new one.
I've learned the barest amount about symbolic links and done
ln -s /Volumes/Titian/Users/rothrock /Users
in the terminal. I've combined that with renaming/deleting the existing one, as well as either just a logout and login or restart.
I'm at my wits end and would really like to be able to have all my files and settings back the way I used to.
First question does anybody know how to do the equivelent of "blessing" a user folder?
If not, how can I set up a new user that has its home folder on the external HD and then just copy all the files back over? (My start up drive is way too small and I need the space.)
Sorry for the cross-post, but I'm thinking the Unix folks might not visit the other sections too often.

Of course as soon as I say I can't find the original trick I think I found it. But maybe not.
http://www.bombich.com/mactips/homedir.html
I tried this, but the first command sudo ditto etc. should copy the existing user directory (on my startup drive) to the external drive, right? But it doesn't do that. So I'm a bit confused.

Moving User's Home Directory from one Xserve to another

Does anyone know the procedure for moving users (Home Directory) from one server to another?
Is there an application that can do this?
Xserve G5 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

I see your problem and I think I will soon have the same one.
I suppose one option would be to delete out the .plist. Then when the user logs in the server should recreate it. If the user had customized it they would of course lose any information.
You could also setup a loginhook that would just run the needed defaults write... and update them as needed. Actually I think that would be the easiest option. The only down side would be making sure every use logs in once before you remove the script.
Hmm I guess another option would be a script that loops through all the users accounts and runs the command as the user. sudo -u usershortname defaults... But I am not sure if this would have to be done on the server it self or if it could be done through a client.
Sorry for the rambling but I am trying to come up with an answer..

How has moving the Home button and the refresh button improved Firefox? Peo grow accustomed to the location of features, moving them does not improve the browser.

Moving the location of features such as the Home button and the sometimes refresh button does not improve the function of the browser. It simply forces users to re-learn the location of these features and put up with the associated inconvenience. Why, what have you gained?

what a ridiculous reply. moving the home button is a pain when it has been on he left for many years now. why the change? are you trying to mimic ie? i hope not.
it doesn't create more space on the toolbar - in fact he default setting for firefox 4 removes space. by moving the home buttons and other buttons back it increases the space back to where it was before.
also why did the history button change to be a button on its own rather thn attached to the forward / back buttons?
to say it's not worth changing it for one person is a nonsense answer. i know loads of people who say it sucks so have had to customize it to change it back to how it was.

Can't add users' home folders to Windows Libraries - "unindexed network location" error

I am unable to add our users' home folders to their Windows Libraries on client PCs. Windows is giving an unindexed network location error.
This worked perfectly fine in WHS 2011, but is failing on WSE 2012 R2 Essentials.
I've checked the indexing settings on the server, and the correct locations are in fact being indexed.
Since several of our clients have limited local storage, I can't solve this by turning on Offline Files.
Is this behavior by design, or am I seeing a bug?
I'm guessing that on WHS 2011 the user folders are special-cased somehow, as normally one would need to include the share root in a library for federated indexing to work correctly. What is it about WHS 2011 that makes this work, and is it possible
to replicate these settings on our WSE 2012 R2 server?
Thank you.

No, our clients are not domain joined.
To clarify, I'm not trying to redirect local folders, but rather to add the (automatically provisioned) user folder on the server to local libraries. Federated search does support this scenario in WHS, so I assume it should work in WSE.
Trying to understand why I'm seeing the error. Thanks.

Can you use a network share as location for users' home

I am running a Mac mini with Mountain Lion and Server.app as a home server. For added storage space I have a NAS. I would like to set up the open directory network users' home share on the NAS. Is that even possible?
I am able to mount the network share on the mini using either afp or nfs, and I can also add the NAS share as a home folder enabled share in the server.app and select that as location for a users home folder, but that only results in the user not being able to log on to his account. Is there something that I am missing or is what I am trying to accomplish simply not possible?

It used to be officially supported to use NFS for clients to access their network home directories but with Lion (and Mountain Lion) this was no longer officially supported.
Therefore the need as I mentioned to 're-share' the volume via AFP. As you implied this does unfortunately impose an additional network overhead as traffic has to go as follows.
client ----> AFP ----> Server -----> NFS -----> NAS
What you could consider to help at least a little bit is to connect the server to the NAS on a totally separate network to the network the server uses to talk to the clients on. The main network would be between the server and clients, and you would use a second Ethernet connection just link the NAS and the server. As the clients will not need to talk directly to the NAS this will not be a problem. This would at least mean that each network only gets one set of traffic either AFP or NFS but not both and means the server can use both at full speed at the same time.
The Mac Pro still has two built-in 1Gbps Ethernet ports but you can also get either a USB3 Ethernet adaptor or a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adaptor (I have used one of these on a Mac mini server).
If you did not already have the NAS then people starting from new would be better off either getting a Thunderbolt RAID which can be directly attached to the Mac server, or at the higher-end go the traditional route of setting up a SAN and using an FDDI connection.
Note: You can now get Thunderbolt to FDDI interfaces.

Moving user configuration to other location

I have seen several topic regarding changing the user
configurtion location and my question is the already solved in
dreamweaver version 8.
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Moving users between partitions

I have "User A" on "Partition 1" and "User B" on "Partition 2". Each partition is a startup partition, so the Applications and other root-level folders have some minor differences.
I want to move both Users to "Partition 3" and rename "User B" to "User C". (If possible, I'd like to merge the Applications folders.)
How should that be done?
Thanks,
humanengr

IMO it's a bad idea to share users between different installs if you use both of them. this can create conflicts and confuse the system. what's your reason for doing this? and you definitely should not merge Applications.
that said, if you use just one system, moving user's home directories to a different partition is fairly straightforward. log in as the user in question, copy its home folder to a different partition. then go to system preferences->accounts. unlock the lock, control-click on your user and choose 'advanced options". in the popup enter the new location for the home directory. then log out/in. you should be now using the new home directory and you can delete the old one.
see this link about renaming your user.
http://www.macworld.com/article/132693/2008/03/changeshortusername.html

Can only submit task to Custom destination. Caused by moved Users folder?

I recently installed my Final Cut Studio 2 on a new Mac Pro. We've installed the system with multiple users.
Everything works fine except Compressor. We were not able to submit any rendering tasks. After checking the batch monitor I noticed some errors being thrown. It looked like a permissions problem.
After creating a Custom Destination that points explicitly to some folder in the user's home folder, and using that as the default target destination, compressor submits without problems.
Is it possible that the problem is caused by moving the Users home folder to another disk? The system disk is 128Gb SSD. I didn't want my data files to be on that system disk, so I moved them to a RAID.
Any idea on how I can solve this?

If the RAID is connected directly to your workstation, you should be able to Ignore Ownership on that volume. (Look in the info window in the Finder)
It is recommended to use an external drive/RAID for scratch disks and exporting destinations.

Copy Finder Items - how to generic for multiple user home directories?

I am creating an Automator workflow to allow my networked users to be able to copy certain files from a central location to their local home directory and overwriting their local copy. How to I make the destination of the Copy Finder Item to be generic home directory (something in the like of "~/Document/MegaSeg User Data/MegaSeg Database" instead of a fixed user home directory)?

Hi
It may be easier with an appleScript (which you could incorporate into an Automator action if you wanted).
--start script
set the_file to -- path to the file you want to copy goes here
set docs_folder to path to documents folder from user domain
tell application "Finder"
set target_folder to folder "MegaSeg Database" of folder "MegaSeg User Data" of docs_folder
duplicate the_file to target_folder with replacing
end tell
-- end script
This will replace existing files of the same name in the target folder. Hope it helps.

Use UNC path from Active Directory to derive network home location

Good Morning
I am trying to get my Macbooks to conenct to a Windows Server 2003 home directory. I have followed the steps in the following article with no luck:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=serveradmin/10.4/en/c7od49.html
I can bind to the Microsoft Active Directory with no problems and I can connect to the file share on the server that I want to make the network home location, but I can't get it to work automatically as I would expect it to.
We will have hundreds of users connecting that will need their home folders redirected to the network folder location.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

I forgot to mention that before upgrading to 10.8.4 the login item below was present:
Item: SMB://network path
Kind: Unknown
After the upgrade:
Item: Unknown
Kind: Unknown
After restart it disappears and never returns (again, this only occurs for admins)

How do I move users' home folders to another disk other than boot disk

I would like to move all of my various users' home folders to a different disk. How is this done?
Do I need to then have the disk mount before any users log in? If so, how do I mount it?

But if you are using Leopard (since you are posting in the Leopard category) and simply forgot to update your profile, you can select the location of your home directory by going to System Preferences Accounts pane, and right (control) clicking on your user name to get the +Advanced Options+. You may need to +unlock the lock+ (give authorization) first.
Here are more specific directions.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071025220746340

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