Change Portable HDs by Computer to Portable HDs by User

We've had a change of policy which means I need to turn off PHD syncing for computer groups, and switch to syncing on a user-by-user basis.
I have made the appropriate changes in WGM but I can't get synching-by-user enabled. The ~/Library/Logs/mirroragent.log shown no action accross successive login/logouts since I turned off syncing-by-computer.
So far I have:
- deleted Library/Managed preferences
- deleted ~/Library/Mirrors*
- deleted ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.MirrorAgent.plist
- deleted MCX cache
- tried holding option-shift at login
Thanks for reading,
b.

Is there any way to set the options that by default the scratch disk will be set to the local drive (home folder on hard disk) and not the server space ...
That would be darn tricky because every path will be unique depending on the user name .. as you note yourself you can't user the $user directory as that is in the server space. As a side note, I notice that you're trying to direct the scratch disk to the local startup volume ... fwiw, not recommended for best performance.
and also projects by default will be DV-PAL not NTSC.
That you can certainly do.
I tried editing the plist file and copying the prefs folders to the default user template (System/Library/User Template/English.lproj etc) but this tries to write the scratch disk back to the user that made it which they will not have access.
How about setting up a temporary folder at the hard disc root eg "/temp" ... then in FCP set up all the User Preferences as needed, Easy Setup set to DV-PAL, and set the System Settings w/ Capture Scratch set to the /temp directory ... then quit FCP and delete the /temp directory. Now copy the FCP prefs into the default user template account. All new accounts will inherit these prefs .. and when FCP launches for each new user the settings will all be in place except the now missing Capture Scratch directory ... which they will be prompted to set. This at least forces a new user to manually set there own scratch disc as it will not default anywhere except to the "please set your scratch disc" message.

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