Cache.db in home folder, should this be here?

I just did a restore from my time machine back up, and now there is a Cache.db file in my home folder.
Can I just delete it? Or should I just make it hidden?

Hi Brian, I had the exact same "issue" yesterday, and as I don't like erroneous files populating my hdd I decided to deal with it!
As most if not all caches can be cleared I figured it could be deleted, so I did, but only after copying it over to a flash dive. Better safe than sorry
All seems to be working fine without it though...

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HT2470 I need to change the home folder name. I just bought this mac today and my cousin put his name in because he had to back up his phone while we were still at the store so he could get a new phone and now my brand new imac says his name in the home f

I need to change the home folder name. I just bought this mac today and my cousin put his name in because he had to back up his phone while we were still at the store so he could get a new phone and now my brand new imac says his name in the home folder. This is very frustrating. I would not have let him put his name in there if I didn't think you could change it. Someone please help!

Delete his user account and create your own, using your name.

How can I move the user home folder from server to the mac

I have a mac mini which i use for OpenDirectory, DNS and email. It is not a big installation it is for my wife and I.
My wife logs in using an network account, and the user folder is saved on the mac mini. This gives me a few problems.
a. If the server is upated and restarted, my wife has to relogin, or sometimes reboot the imac to get acces to the email etc.
b. Having the home folder on a mac mini is causing the imac to be very slow
c. Itunes can't synchronize to her Iphone. Connecint it gives her a message that synchronization has been turned off, and if i try to turn it on I get an error message saying somthing about shared access to the user folder.
I do not use a network account and have none of these problems.
So I have decided to try to put her user folder on the imac instead of on the server..
But how do I do that?
I still wan't her to use the network user account, but the user folder should be on her imac.
Kind Regards
Henrik

I do not think you can move migration assistant for this situation.
The mac mini is a osx snow leopard server, running openDirectory, DNS and E-mail, so its not like she is logging into the server.
Her imac is bound to the OpenDirectory and she uses an openDirectory network user account to log in on her imac.
But the user folder is saved on the server, which is very nice if you have a bigger server with faster disks, and more mac clients to log into.
But in this situation she only uses her imac, and the performance of having the user folder on the server is not good enough, as well as the other problems I have with itunes sync etc.
So I do not think it's a job for the migration assistant.

I Renamed Home Folder and lost all settings, jpgs, mp3s, photos etc. HELP!

First off, have a MacBook, 2.4GHz Intel Core Duo w/4GBs of RAM OS 10.5.8
I followed what I thought were proper procedures to change the name of the Home Folder from "macbook" to "rocki"
I followed the instructions at Mac OS X v10.6 and earlier: How to change user account name or home directory name
For Mac OS X 10.5 or later
1. Enable the root user.
2. Log in as root.
3. Navigate to the /Users folder.
4. Select the Home folder with the short name you want to change, and rename it just like you would rename any folder. Keep in mind that the shortname must be all lowercase, with no spaces, and only contain letters.
At this point I skipped steps 5 & 6 Since I already had a user named the name I wanted "Rocki" I thought I didn't need to do this. So went onto Steps 7-9, and NO everything was NOT there.
5. Use the Accounts pane in System Preferences to create a new user with the Account name or Short Name that you used in the previous step.
6. Click OK when "A folder in the Users folder already has the name 'account name'. Would you like to use that folder as the Home folder for this user account?" Note: This will correct the ownership of all files in the Home folder, and avoid permissions issues with the contents.
7. Choose Log Out from the Apple menu.
8. Log in as the newly created user. You should be able to access all of your original files (on the desktop, in Documents, and in the other folders of this Home).
9. After verifying that your data is as expected, you can delete the original user account via the Accounts pane of System Preferences. At this point I skipped step 10 b/c nothing was there as usual.
10. Disable the root user.
All my data and settings were not there. So I went back logged in as Root, navigated to the Users folder, and saw that there were two folders, one said "macbook" even though I previously just named it and there was also another folder named "rocki" there. Seeing two folders and wanting to return back to normal I deleted that "rocki" folder, I had just created, and logged back out of root and logged back into the only user I had, which was also named "rocki" which is the admin and the user that had all my files and settings originally before I tried to change the name of the home folder. And no change, everything is gone and missing.
To clarify, originally, I had a home folder named MacBook and a user named Rocki. Everything was cool and worked great! But I wanted to change that home folder name to match the user name. Whoops!
What can I do to go back to normal?!?!?!!?!? Please help me!! I'm so screwed. If I can't go back to normal, how do I find all the missing files and what not?!?
Thanks so much in advance!

Apparent 'Loss' of Home Folder:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107854

Leopard can't find home folder

I moved my home folder, using Apple's instructions, to an external drive.
It is located on a partition on a western digital my book studio 500GB. There is nothing else on that on that partition.
I turn off my iMac last night and came back to it this afternoon. When I booted it up, and entered my password, it loaded what seemed to be, a version of Leopard that you would see when you reinstall the system. It had the standard background and dock icons etc. However, the home folder had only 3 items, Desktop, Library and one other folder I can't remember.
I did a bit of investigating and found out the home folder with 3 sub folders, was in fact on the main HD.
I opened a finder window of the Home partition, cmd clicked on the top of the window to show the path, and instead of being "My Imac>Home>" it was "My Imac>Volumes>Home"
The level: Volumes was in a lighter font, I presume indicating it is a hidden "folder".
I went into system preferences>accounts, unlocked it and right clicked on my account, into advanced options (this is the way I told it originally where the new home folder was) and saw that in had the home folder in /Volumes/Home 1/Alex
Alex is the name of my home folder.
I hit choose, and relocated my home folder, but this time instead of Home 1, it had Home 2.
I restarted and when I entered my password it brought up an error.
*You are unable to log into the user account "Alex" at this time.*
*Logging into the account failed because an error occurred*
I tried a few times but no joy.
I inserted the install disk and repair permissions and the actual disk of both Macintosh HD and Home. I also repaired the entire HD that Home is located on. It said all drives were fine.
After restarting it logged on but to the same state as before. I re-did all the steps and tried again. Back in circles. Except repairing the disks didn't work this time.
I hooked it up by target disk mode to my MBP and created the necessary folders to simulate a home folder (leaving the library folder as it was) but this didn't help.
My best diagnoses is that the iMac thinks there is a volume called Home 1 (or 2 or whatever) and that is where the Home folder should be. But in fact it is just on the drive Home.
Anyone have any ideas how I can fix this?
I tried ringing Apple support, but aside from telling me that you can't move the home folder, or tell system preferences where it is, and leave me on hold for ages while he sees if my iMac is within its 90 day phone support, they did nothing. Oh and it took 15 minutes before he understood I wasn't having trouble resetting the password. They should really have a few levels of support, noobs, the average joe and guys who know what they are talking about to a pretty good extent (i.e. me)
I'm not great with terminal but have used it a bit with very clear instructions, so go for any suggestions and I'll have a shot
Regards

Ye I did that but no joy, different password still doesn't work.
Without trying to sound ungrateful at all (your very helpful ) and also to save your own time replying, I am pretty well aquatinted with OS X and stuff like resetting the password, I find, is pretty straight forward Again, your input is greatly appreciated and most stuff with troubleshooting is fine (root user, passwords, DU, Install disks etc) terminal and the very obscure or unused utilities may not be as familiar but are still OK Hope I didn't offend you
So really my biggest task now is to get into the system and change the Home folder location, something I can't do via target disk mode etc.
Regards

What are the correct permissions for the Home folder?

Since buying my first mac (G4 iMac) I've since bought 2 other macs & transferred my home folder from the older computer each time. Since then I've messed around with the permissions of the Home folder a few times to try share files & folders between my Windows PCs. So the permissions of the Home folder on all computers could be messed up a little.
I want to set up permissions how they should be set up as default.
I created another user account with admin priveliges & it looks like the Home folder should be set up as follows:
Owner: 'my name'
Access: Read & Write
Group: admin or 'my name'
Access: Read only
Others: Read only
And the sub folders (Documents, Pictures etc.) should be set up as follows:
Owner: 'my name'
Access: Read & Write
Group: admin or 'my name'
Access: No access
Others: No accesss
Is this correct, & if so shall I just set permissions on my Home folder exactly the same as the new account I set up?
Or is there some way of resetting permissions for the Home folder?
(I know repairing permissions with Disk Utility doesn't do this).
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Mac OS X does not have a built-in way of doing this, but you can make one yourself. Open the Script Editor in the /Applications/AppleScript/ folder and enter the following:
do shell script "chmod 755 ~"
try
do shell script "chmod 700 ~/Desktop"
end try
try
do shell script "chmod 700 ~/Documents"
end try
try
do shell script "chmod 700 ~/Library"
end try
try
do shell script "chmod 700 ~/Music"
end try
try
do shell script "chmod 700 ~/Pictures"
end try
try
do shell script "chmod 755 ~/Public"
end try
try
do shell script "chmod 755 ~/Sites"
end try
This script can be saved as an application, which makes it possible to fix the permissions on a home folder with two clicks. The try statements are included so that the script will run if a folder doesn't exist. If the ~ object is a symbolic link, the permissions on it may not be changed; you can use the code block
tell application "Finder"
set the_home to POSIX path of (home as alias)
end tell
do shell script ("chmod 755 " & the_home)
in this case. The rest of the script works as before.
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Finder cannot open HOME folder - "There is no default application specified

HELP! Starting this morning, after a reboot, Finder will not open my home folder. If I open a Finder window and try to open "jen" which is my wife's home folder (and what we're logged in as) Finder says "There is no default application specified to open the document Jen". If I go to this folder through Macintosh HD->Users->Jen I get the same message.
If I click on this folder in the Finder window it doesn't show an arrow indicating that it is a directory and under the "Preview" pane, it shows the house icon, but says the "Kind" is a "Package" (??).
HOWEVER, everything else still works. The desktop is populated. All the applicatiosn like Itunes and Iphoto find the photos and songs.
If I go into Utilities->Terminal and use the bash shell I can see that the /Users/jen folder IS intact and all of the files are there.
Is this some type of Finder damage?
Ideas on how to fix?? I'm a Windows and Linux expert, but pretty new to Mac, so I'm perplexed.
I thought maybe a permissions issue, and I tried the disk utility->Repair disk permissions and that didn't help.
This is what the "jen" folder shows for permissions and attributes in the bash shell:
cd /Users
ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 28 jen jen 952 Dec 21 09:38 jen
I MIGHT have injected this problem, because I was having a problem where I could not see volumes on the desktop when I double clicked a DMG file (it worked before), and I was playing around with a few DMG images, and I tried one on the Apple website called dragster which said it changed Finder and then I uninstalled it. I think the problem started after this.
I THINK everything else is fine, from what I can see.
Help would be GREATLY appreciated!
Thanks,
Greg

For those who may hit this problem in the future, I figured what my solution was, and called Apple support and they confirmed it was my best option. To fix it:
1. In NetInfo Manager, enable root access.
2. Log off.
3. Login as root userid with the root password (make sure you set one in NetInfo Manager)
4. As root, copy the folder, which Finder thinks is a 'package' to a backup drive or if no backup drive then some other location outside of /Users.
NOTE: I found if I clicked on the Users/<userid> folder once to highlight it in Finder, then under the gear icon chose "Open Package Contents" it would launch a finder window and show you all of the files in the users folder - that way you could grab them and copy them over if you wanted to do it that way, but dragging the 'package' over works fine too. One other option, in the bash shell IF YOU ARE COMFORTABLE:
cp -R /Users/<userid> <backupdrive>/<backupfolder>
5. Once you are sure you've backed up the damaged users folder, go into System Preferences -> Accounts. Delete the damaged users userid. When it prompts you if you want to delete immediately, you should probably not click that but instead click the button to create a backup image of the users home folder. This will create an image in /home/Delete_users/<userid>.dmg that is a another backup of the users data. Then the /Users/<userid> data is deleted and the account is gone.
6. Recreate the user account, setup the same settings as you used before.
7. Copy the data from the backup drive/folder to the new /Users/<userid> folder. You don't have to copy all of the data back, just the users settings and personal files. You can find info on what is users personal folders vs control folders elsewhere. I guess if in doubt copy it all back over.
8. Next, you need to give the userid permission to their files since they will be set to be owned as root since root copied them out and back in.
In Applications->Utilities->Terminal
chown -R <userid>:<userid> /Users/<userid>
So I did:
chown -R jen:jen /Users/jen
That sets jen to be owner of all files and folders under /Users/jen
9. Logoff as root.
10. Login as the once damaged userid. It should work, all settings should still be intact, and you should have a normal 'home' folder you can get into through Finder.
11. Go into NetInfo manager and under the 'Security' menu 'Disable root access' to disable the root userid again.
12. Keep your backup of your home folder for a while until your comfortable everything has been restored.
There MIGHT be an easier way to reset this, maybe with some AppleScript, but I don't know it.
There you go.

Creating a user without home folder ?

Hi
Can i create a new "User " programatically(iam using to do this) without having a home folder for that user ? Let me explain what iam doing basically.MY application tracks complex deals,financial transactions between corporate firms.Any valid user(called as Member) to this system can create what is known as a "DEAL" for which associated documents have to be managed among other things.For this i start off by creating a new user in the IFS with user name as the deal itself(DealCode which is the DEAL's code is the User name ).(this account will have a home folder and will be /home/<DealCode>).This account will hold all documents pertaining to that DEAL .Now can i create users(rather Members) who can access this account for Deal ?I do not want the Members to have a home folder but when they login their home folder should automatically be the Deal's home folder for which they are authorised.So what is the best way of doing this ?and is this the right approach ?
thanks
Sampige
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I'm trying to understand your model.
I think I understand this much.
Each Deal is has it's own folder.
Members create Deals.
A Deal will be accessed by Many Members.
What I'm not sure about is can a member access many deals, but I would expect this to be the case.
My gut feeling is that you do not represent each deal as user with a home folder. When a new deal is created I would create a folder for that deal and a new group which will be used to control who has access to that folder.
The group will be used to control which members have access to the folder containing the deal. If a member has access to the deal they should be added to the group which has access permissions on the folder.
When a member has access to deal their home folder will contain a link to the folder that contains the information for the deal
When a member logs in they will see one folder for each deal that they have access to in their home folder.
Does this help

Can I share the home folder between 2 MacBook Pros?

I have a mid 2009 15 in. MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9.4.
I recently sucessfully moved my home folder to an external disk in order to increase the space on my hard drive.
I am planning to acquire a 13 in. MacBook Pro with Retina display. I would like to have both computers use the same home folder. This would allow me to share all data files with both computers without having to move the data files about, although I could use only one or the other of the computers at a time.
Does anyone know if this is possible? If not, why not?

Your apps should not be installed in your home folder--they should be in /Applications where every user can access them.
If you want to share things between users on the same Mac, use the /Users/Shared folder. Keep your home folder private. Trying to defeat the protections on the home folder subfolders just gets messy. I've never bothered to figure out all of the problems associated with it so I can't explain how to do it.
Even with using Shared, you would need to alter the ACLs on the shared folder in order to allow both users to modify the documents.
You must create a Group in Users & Groups and put each user in that group. Then create a folder inside /Users/Shared where you want to share the various files.
Then, add an ACL to the shared folder that gives the group special permissions. on that folder.
sudo chmod -R +a "<sharinggroup> allow delete,chown,list,search,add_file,add_subdirectory,delete_child,file_inherit,directory_inherit" /Users/Shared/<sharing folder>
Replace <sharinggroup> and <sharingfolder> with the name of your group and your folder. Then, run the command in the Terminal.
With that ACL, each user in <sharinggroup> will be able to alter the files created by any user in the group in that <sharingfolder>.
Essentially, the client OS is not designed for true file sharing among the individual users. It is designed to isolate each user account from the others.

File Vault requires free space equal to size of Home Folder?

Is it true that File Vault requires you maintain free disk space equal to the size of your home folder? Or is that only necessary in order to create the vault in the first place?

I'm really sorry but I still am no clear if you gave me an answer to my original question, which was "Is it true that File Vault requires you maintain free disk space equal to the size of your home folder?"
I understand I need to have free space equal to the size of my Home Folder for initial encryption.
I understand I need to have free space equal to the size of my Home Folder should I decide to restore (or unencrypt) the encrypted folder. This is easy to do by simply moving files off to an external drive.
I understand that having a full drive can result in degredation of system performance.
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Realistically, my Home Folder is about 90GB, after having removed graphics and music files. I would prefer not to have to maintain 90gb of free space during normal operation. If my drive has 30gb or more of free space, that should be more than enough to maintain reasonable system performance.

I'm administrator of Macbook Pro. Can't get a home folder? Previous owner is off User list but still had a home folder on side bar. How do I get rid of hers and get a home folder of my own? Thanks for any help.

Hi: Bought a MacBook Pro age circa 2011,works great, except I understand I need to have a Home Folder. I am listed as administrator in the User accounts pref, in fact I'm the only user there. Still in the sidebar when starting up the Mac, there is the former owners Home Folder and not one for me. I want to delete her Home Folder and get one in the sidebar for me. I've tried all the things I could think of the delete her folder, but can't seem to do it as there isn't a button or prompt that I can click on to delete her folder and create one for me as the adminstrator. I'd really appreciate any help with this problem that someone might give me. Carol

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
If I have understood you properly, to do that, you have to create a new administrator user with your name and for your uses. Follow these steps:
1. Open System Preferences > Users & Groups, and press the + button to create a new administrator account.
2. When you have finished creating that user, open  > Log Out, and log in your new user.
3. Open System Preferences > Users & Groups, select the old user and press the - button to remove the user. If you want, you can select the option to remove the Home folder of this user, so you will only have the Home folder for your account

Sync folders in home folder

I have AD-OD home folders set up fine.
I have a small problem however. When I make another folder in the Users home folder, ie Downloads or whatever, that won't sync because of permission issues.
Folders created on the desktop works fine.
Any ideas?

It seems Sync needs Posix permissions to work. Ie I need to set the User to the owner of the home folder for this to work.
My AD doesn't create the homefolders this way.

"Fire-vault protected home folder did not open and needs to be repaired."

I recently updated my macbook to leopard and after my laptop downloaded system updates, it had to restart but when I came to the login section and tried to login, I get this message:
"Fire-vault protected home folder did not open and needs to be repaired. Click OK to repair the folder and continue logging in. Click Cancel login to log in as a different user."
I don't have a different user so I clicked OK, but then I get this message:
"You are unable to log in to the user account "Kyle" at this time. Logging in to the account failed because an error occured."
So now I can't login and I'm a college student and need important files on my computer. Someone please help! I have class tomorrow!

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If you do not have a backup I am very sorry to say you may have lost those files. It is worth backing up important college work, even if it is just to CD. I hope Apple come up with a fix for this because many of us hit this problem. Part of the reason for owning a Mac is you do not expect to have these issues. It made me feel like I had just installed XP!

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baltwo, out of interest, I just found this at: http://www.theinstructional.com/guides/how-to-re-run-the-os-x-setup-assistant
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Under certain circumstances, it can be advantageous to re-run the Setup Assistant. Using some command-line trickery, we can do just this without having to erase and reinstall OS X...
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[solved] Gnome-do can't open home folder

I've been using gnome-do for a while now and like it, but I can't get it to open my home folder. This is with the docky theme. If I try to use it to open my home folder.
What I mean is type super-space to bring up the text input box and then type "home", if I run the action to open home folder it brings up the busy cursor icon but then never opens the home folder.
I can work around this by enabling the files and folders plugin and then typing my username, but I would rather have the home folder thing work.
Anyone else using gnome-do on Arch have this problem or any idea why I'm having this problem?
Last edited by jowilkin (2010-01-25 02:27:40)

Well apparently this is a known issue that the gnome-do devs are not too interested in fixing https://bugs.launchpad.net/do/+bug/290136
Edit: Actually looks like it was a nautilus bug, there is a workaround in the bug report at https://bugs.launchpad.net/do/+bug/290136/comments/48, you only need to make the following change: in /usr/share/applications/nautilus-home.desktop, change "Exec=nautilus --no-desktop" to "Exec=nautilus --no-desktop ." - Just add a space and a period.
Last edited by jowilkin (2010-01-25 02:11:44)

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