Directories in Home Folder

I acidently delected my "Pictures" folder.
ow can I recover it?
I tried to create a new folder, call it "Pictures" and log out, but the icon didn't appear.

The only ways to recover a deleted file are:
1. If the file itself was only an alias to the actual file. Look in Users -> yourname folder to see if a Pictures folder exists there.
2. If the file was only moved to the Trash. Look inside your Trash to see if it was moved there. If it was moved there, just drag it back to Users -> yourname folder.
3. With a data recovery program used as soon as the deletion happens, or shortly thereafter if the machine was shut down. Every moment you wait while the machine is on, data is being written to the hard drive which will erase deleted files permanently. Two data recovery programs which I'm familiar with are http://www.prosoft.com/ 's Data Rescue II and http://www.subrosasoft.com/ 's Filesalvage.
4. From a backup. See my FAQ* on backing up:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.
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How do I relocate part of my home folder onto another drive

Hi all
I am about to take delivery of my new Mac Pro, but with only 512MB of startup SSD I don't have room for my whole home folder. I have found plenty of info online about moving my whole home folder onto another drive, but as my external drive is only USB3 I don't want to do that. Instead I want to move my Movies and Pictures folders only and then tell my system to forget about the old location and treat the new location as though it is the home folder just for those two bits.
Sure I can just copy them over and delete the old folder contents, but as soon as I want to do something like save a pic or movie the system defaults to the old empty location.
It's not the end of the world, but if I can fix it, I'd like to. The plan is to sort this on my current Mac Mini before the new toy arrives, so I can easily set up the new one.
All guidance gratefully received.
Regards
Tim

Hello,
You can use some basic unix wizardry to make this happen. What you will be doing is creating a unix "soft link" from your home directory to the actual location of the directories, wherever they may be. This link serves as a "behind-the-scenes redirect" to the actual location to which you link. For example, with the soft link in place, if you
Here's what you do:
Use Finder to move your directories of choice from your home directory to the external HDD. This will require your admin password. Now you should see the folders on your external HDD, and NOT in your home folder. For purposes of this procedure, I will assume your external HDD is named "Storage". Wherever you see "Storage" in the following steps, replace it with the actual name of your external HDD.
Open the Terminal app.
From the command prompt, type the following commands (with a <return> after each) to create a soft link (in this example we are using the "Movies" folder. The "Movies" folder must have been moved in Step 1 to the external HDD):
cd
ln -s /Volumes/Storage/Movies Movies
Repeat the "ln -s" command for each folder that you have moved in Step 1.
Here's what's happening in Step 3:
The "cd" command just ensures that you are in your home directory.
The "ln -s" command creates a link from the external HDD directory, to a directory in your present location (i.e., your home directory)
There is one side affect that I don't know how to get around. Once you do this, the icon that shows up for the "Movies" folder in your home directory will no longer be the fancy system icon for the Movies folder. It will be a vanilla folder icon, with an curved arrow. The curved arrow is a visual indication that the file/folder is link to somewhere else.
Hope this helps.

Mobile Account and Active Directory home folder

We install a XServe server (Mac OS X 10.6.3). We join it to Active Directory for authentification and Open Directory for policy. I read the magic triangle on the web.
I mount a MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.6. I join it to AD and after to OD. When I configure an account to be mobile, the home folder configure in AD stop to mount automatically. If the account is not mobile the home folder mount correctly.
Somebody has an idea of waht happen?

Hello, sifeduc, and welcome to the AppleBoards,
This really seems like a Directory Services question and is probably best suited to this board: http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1353
That being said are you talking about Portable Home Directories? If so PHDs should be created on the server first and on the client second. If you have a client account you want to sync to the OD you need to delete the client account - *but leave it in place* - create a server account and then use the local account which will then sync to the server. The steps for this are a little more complicated than that but not much.
Good Luck,
=Tod

[SOLVED] null file appearing in home folder

This is dumb. About every 2 seconds, a file called "null" appears in my home folder. It's completely empty. If I delete it, another one pops up again. I'm aware that some program somewhere is probaby trying to use /dev/null and going to ~/null instead, but it's weird, because I haven't changed anything about my system besides installing one package that I've now uninstalled. Said package is pev over in the AUR, and it didn't actually install anything at all (pacman -Ql gave me a bunch of directories that I already had).
I remember having this problem way back in Ubuntu once, and it turned out that lots of people had it and it was the same program for everyone being weird, but I don't remember what that program was. I've even tried using lsof and grep, but I'm somehow getting nothing there, whether it's lsof | grep null, lsof | grep /home/jimi/null, lsof | grep ~/null, or lsof | grep null | grep -v /dev/null.
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Ha, there we go. That's exactly what it is now and what it was last time (I stopped using the script for a while and then downloaded it again a few days ago). Thanks.
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Unable to write to Filevault home folder

I am logged in under my user account with Administrator privileges. However, I am not able to write to the Home folder of my account. I have Filevault enabled, and notice there is a little padlock on the filevaulted-icon of my Home folder. Doing a Get Info shows me that the folder is indeed Locked (via check box), but it is a greyed-out box, so I have no access to it.
Any suggestions on how to even attempt getting this resolved? Because I cannot write, it is affecting my back-up program, Mail prefs won't open and other little annoying things. I would have done an erase and reinstall long ago, but since my laptop can't properly back-up, I am nervous about losing everything.
help!

I'm having the same issue here.
Looks like it is allowed to create sub directories on VHD from LOW INTEGRITY processes, but not for files. It's as if FILE_ADD_SUBDIRECTORY is set, but FILE_ADD_FILE/FILE_WRITE_DATA is missing. ACL including Integrity level on filesystem is set to Full
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How to fix permission denied for home folder with Apache in Mavericks?

I recently activated the apache that ships with OS X Mavericks. I followed some tutorial to set up the web-server, however. When I browse to my home-filter at http://localhost/~nazeem, I get the following error: You don't have permission to access /~nazeem/ on this server.
Installation steps
To set up the webserver, I took the following steps:
1. activated the webserver with command: apachectl start
2. enabled PHP by checking if the module is loaded
3. checked if the home folder module is loaded
4. made the user based configuration file, in /etc/apache2/users/nazeem.conf The content is as follows:
<Directory "/Users/nazeem/Development/Websites/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All
</Directory>
Permissions
~/nazeem : drwxr-xr-x+ ~/nazeem/Development : drwxr-xr-x ~/nazeem/Development/Websites : drwxr-xr-x
Log
The apache log says the following:
[Mon May 19 21:22:57 2014] [error] [client ::1] client denied by server configuration: /Users/nazeem/Sites
In my opinion this is remarkable, as the path /Users/nazeem/Sites is nog what I defined in my user configuration.
Versions
OS X Mavericks 10.9.3
Apache 2.2.26
Does anybody know how to solve this?

nzm_aak wrote:
I recently activated the apache that ships with OS X Mavericks. I followed some tutorial to set up the web-server, however. When I browse to my home-filter at http://localhost/~nazeem, I get the following error: You don't have permission to access /~nazeem/ on this server.
Does anybody know how to solve this?
You will have to contact the author of that tutorial and ask. Apache can be configured an infinite number of ways. You seem to be attempting to configure it in two conflicting methods. You can define specific directories on your web server or you can use mod_userdir. You can't hack up a combination of the two.
I posted my own User Tip on how to configure Apache: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3083
This user tip only covers mod_userdir and will serve content out of $(HOME)/Sites. I strongly suggest starting there and only trying a custom location later, if you see the need.

Stop Auto Mount of SMB Home Folder

For awhile, I tried SMB home folders for network users. This worked poorly, so i went back to using AFP.
However, for most users, their network home folder is now getting auto mounted by SMB at login.
I've checked WGM manager to make sure they have AFP homes and that no SMB home is assigned.
I've checked the users control panel to see if there is an automount setup there. Nothing.
Where else could auto mount information be stored and how can I find it to wipe it out?

Normally it would be a matter of changing the server to register the AFP share as an auto mount for user home directories, then you have to use Workgroup Manager to reconfigure each user to select the new share location which should now be listed in the Home tab in Workgroup Manager.
If you only do the first step the user account will still be set to the original settings.
Is this using Open Directory and a Mac file server? The process might be more complicated if your using Windows Active Directory, and typically a Windows server does not do AFP.

Lion Server - Home Folder Sync Not Working - HELP

I have a lion server set up on a mac mini.
I have set up an OD to manage network accounts through the server app. My workflow for setting up users is:
1.     using the server app add a new user
2.     I have a home folders users directory set up under file sharing and set to be available for home directories - so I select this share as the home folder for the user
3.     I user the WGM app to then set up mobiility through the preferences tab to create always and to sync the home and preferences
4.     I check that the home folder is set correctly under the user account in WGM
When I log in to the client machine (regardless of whether or not I have first logged in on the server or not) the client presents an error saying that it can not log in and can not access the server at that time. The client stays on the user login screen.
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I then log back on to the client machine and can log in without any problems. HOwever, I get an error message if I try to sync saying that the home folder is not accessible. This is despite the fact that the home folder, and the server et al, can be mounted in finder and I can copy and paste documents etc to and from the server. I have full and expected access to the server and the associated storage.
For some reason home sync continues to say that the home folder can not be found (in fact that the server can not be found) whenever I try to sync.
This is driving me bananas. I have tried so many permutations that I have lost count of the things that I have tried.
Is this a permission issue?
I have the OD bound to the client machine and have no problems seeing the users and being able to access the OD from the client machine.
Does any one have any thoughts at the issues I should be looking at or which logs may be helpful in trying to understand what is going on?

Jonathon.
The dscl command just leads to a "Data source (LAPDv3.server.tnichapman.private) is not valid" statement.
I logged on using my local client admin account.
I had a search through console.
The only error associated with slapconfig was:
2012-04-17 03:40:18 +0000   popen: /bin/cp -r /Library/Preferences/com.apple.passwordserver.plist /tmp/slapconfig_backup_stage71031lThmRX/, "r"
2012-04-17 03:40:18 +0000 Error: Command failed with exit code 256: /bin/cp -r /Library/Preferences/com.apple.passwordserver.plist /tmp/slapconfig_backup_stage71031lThmRX/
The rest were statements like this:
4/17/12 6:40:26.410 AM com.apple.opendirectorybackup: 2012-04-17 03:40:19 +0000   popen: /usr/bin/tar czpf /tmp/slapconfig_backup_stage71031lThmRX/shadowbackup.tar.gz /var/db/shadow, "r"
I couldn't find any references to ApplePasswordServer and there didn't look to be anything unusualy about the opendirectoryd entries below
4/17/12 6:40:16.106 AM com.apple.opendirectorybackup: Enter archive password:
4/17/12 6:40:17.244 AM com.apple.opendirectorybackup: bdb_monitor_db_open: monitoring disabled; configure monitor database to enable
4/17/12 6:40:17.285 AM com.apple.opendirectorybackup: bdb_monitor_db_open: monitoring disabled; configure monitor database to enable
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4/17/12 6:40:19.173 AM com.apple.opendirectorybackup: tar: Removing leading '/' from member names
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4/17/12 6:40:26.410 AM com.apple.opendirectorybackup: 2012-04-17 03:40:17 +0000 Starting LDAP server (slapd)
4/17/12 6:40:26.410 AM com.apple.opendirectorybackup: 2012-04-17 03:40:17 +0000 Waiting for slapd to start
4/17/12 6:40:26.410 AM com.apple.opendirectorybackup: 2012-04-17 03:40:17 +0000 ...
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4/17/12 6:40:26.410 AM com.apple.opendirectorybackup: 2012-04-17 03:40:18 +0000   popen: /bin/cp -r /etc/openldap /tmp/slapconfig_backup_stage71031lThmRX/, "r"
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4/17/12 6:40:26.410 AM com.apple.opendirectorybackup: 2012-04-17 03:40:18 +0000   popen: /usr/bin/tar czpf /tmp/slapconfig_backup_stage71031lThmRX/krb5backup.tar.gz /var/db/krb5kdc/kdc.conf /var/db/krb5kdc/acl_file.* /var/db/krb5kdc/m_key.* /etc/krb5.keytab , "r"
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4/17/12 6:40:26.410 AM com.apple.opendirectorybackup: 2012-04-17 03:40:18 +0000   popen: /bin/cp /Library/Preferences/com.apple.openldap.plist /tmp/slapconfig_backup_stage71031lThmRX/, "r"
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4/17/12 6:40:26.410 AM com.apple.opendirectorybackup: 2012-04-17 03:40:19 +0000   popen: /usr/bin/tar czpf /tmp/slapconfig_backup_stage71031lThmRX/shadowbackup.tar.gz /var/db/shadow, "r"
4/17/12 6:40:26.410 AM com.apple.opendirectorybackup: 2012-04-17 03:40:19 +0000 Backed Up Keychain
4/17/12 6:40:26.410 AM com.apple.opendirectorybackup: 2012-04-17 03:40:19 +0000 4 Backing up CA certificates
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4/17/12 6:40:26.410 AM com.apple.opendirectorybackup: 2012-04-17 03:40:26 +0000 Removed directory at path /tmp/slapconfig_backup_stage71031lThmRX.
4/17/12 6:40:26.410 AM com.apple.opendirectorybackup: 2012-04-17 03:40:26 +0000 Removed file at path /var/run/slapconfig.lock.

Will changing the partition of the Home Folder automatically move files from old location?

I want to change the home folder for my users. Currently they are saving to the C: drive and using up the space on the root drive. There is a D: partition that has 774 GB free, so I would like to move use directories over to a new Home
Folder on the D: drive.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816313
What I am unsure of is whether or not I will have to manually move their files once I change the home directory. Will it or do I need to take an extra step to move files in order to provide a seemless experience to the users?
I am working with Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials.

Hi,
Did you use the group policy to set the user home folder?
As Ahmed MALEK mentioned, a user account is moved from one location to another in AD the users home drive setting is not automatically updated as its a static configuration on the users account. You need to manually move the file to the new location.
Maybe you could consider the folder redirection, more detail information, please refer to:
How to “Set users home folder” via group policy in Windows 8
Regards.
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Path between Home folder & iPhoto & iTunes software is gone: can't access.

It appears I accidentally obliterated my Home folder, and in so doing, iPhoto & iTunes can no longer access my photos & playlists, although all the files appear intact in the directories --even though I recreated the Home folder with the same user name. (I am the sole user/administrator.)
Would appreciate any advice regarding restoring function.
Thanks,
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Hi, Terence,
Thanks for responding!
Yes, in fact everything in my Home folder appears affected.
I am not very practiced at backing up & had not done so in a while. I thought I could back up my entire home folder (including iTunes & iPhoto) by dragging the Home folder icon into another Finder window with my LaCie external as the destination, cause usually when I do this with other folders the original remains & the file gets copied. There was a whooshing sound & the folder disappeared entirely from both originating & destination windows... (Also my LaCie said it did not have sufficient space.)
I then may have compounded the error when I found out in a Mac OSX manual that Go-to-Folder, Shift, control, H would show my Home folder. When it in fact reappeared this way, I tried to use it to access iPhoto with no success (including a zipped version of an earlier backup to the same hard drive). In between all this I rebooted at least twice....
All the sub folders/files in question seem to be intact (I have files of rolls, originals, modified, etc, to say nothing of the songs - which are not as great a concern cause I have most of them on CDs) - just no way to open them in the respective applications
After reading some of the other posts, I downloaded Library Manager & my current plan is to backup to DVD all my individual rolls & then somehow try to rebuild the library, but from what I read, I will lose all my "albums" etc.
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How can I get 10.8 to recognize my home folder that was moved to another drive?

I installed an SSD in my MacBook Pro a while back and replaced the optical drive with a regular SATA hard drive and moved my user folder to the larger drive. Unfortunately, Moutain Lion didn't like that, I can no longer log in to my account (I am assuming the relocated user folder is the problem, perhaps it is not?). Has anyone else encountered this problem?

Are you able to log into the machine with a different account (like an administrator account)? If so, open Directory Utility (/System/Library/CoreServices/Directory Utility.app) and go to the "Directory Editor" tab, and select your user in the list on the left (the one that you moved to the second drive). What is the value for "NFSHomeDirectory" for that user? The upgrade to OS X Mountain Lion could have reset this value (since having home directories on drives other than the boot drive (I think) isn't supported). Have you tried reapplying the procedure you used to move your home folder to the secondary drive prior to the upgrade?

How can i change the name of my Home Folder on my Mac Pro?

I have only had the thing 2 weeks and have noticed the Home Folder is called Sharon how on earth this happened i do not know, not my name?! How can i go about changing it please?? Help!!

Changing the existing home folder name is complicated. I recommend you NOT do that.
Instead, create a new User with exactly the home folder name you want, and copy your files over to that new user. Once a few days have gone by trouble-free, and you are certain you have no issues, you can delete the old home folder.
While on the subject of users, Some users prefer the peace-of-mind of using an "ordinary" user account, rather than an Admin account for daily use. This makes it much harder for anything to "sneak" onto your Mac, as you need to authenticate anything to be installed in system directories.
To do this, create a new Admin user, log into it, and demote your daily-use account to a non-Admin user. When actively installing stuff, the Admin username and password will be requested.

How can I change the name of my home folder?

Just got a new job. Yeah! Taken over former employees' iMac. I made myself Administrator, seem to be the only log in option. But, my home folder is still in the old guys name. How can I change the name on the Home folder without deleting it and loose all the files? CAN'T loose the files? Help...
Thanks

Changing the existing home folder name is complicated. I recommend you NOT do that.
Instead, create a new User with exactly the home folder name you want, and copy your files over to that new user. Once a few days have gone by trouble-free, and you are certain you have no issues, you can delete the old home folder.
While on the subject of users, Some users prefer the peace-of-mind of using an "ordinary" user account, rather than an Admin account for daily use. This makes it much harder for anything to "sneak" onto your Mac, as you need to authenticate anything to be installed in system directories.
To do this, create a new Admin user, log into it, and demote your daily-use account to a non-Admin user. When actively installing stuff, the Admin username and password will be requested.

Home Folder Creation w/Active Directory

If this has been asked a million times, just point me to the url for the answer...
I have done the leg work and have the "magic triangle" working - I can login and auth to AD and get my preferences from OD. I want our user's home folders to reside on our Windows server. I have shared out \\server\students on the Windows server and in AD I am pointing their home folder to our Windows server, but I can't get the permissions right. When I point a new user's home folder in AD to our Windows server, it creates the folder \\server\students\jtest.
When the user logs in, none of the subfolders are created. Can someone give me some pointers on how permissions need to be set so the subfolders are created on first login?
This is all pretty new and I'm happy that I got the triangle to work - if I can get this all important piece, I'll be set.
Thx in advance!

Hi
A lot of this depends on how many OUs you have; how deep they go; and how many directories you have nested in each OU or the particular OU the directory for home folder creation is within. The accepted 'recommendation' is not more than 3 deep - generally. Having said that I have made it work with OUs 7-10 deep. Gets trickier after that.
In my experience the non-creation of expected directories is generally down to permissions not being assigned properly - as you've guessed. Essentially users must be given read/write access all the way down the nested directories. I have seen permissions assigned correctly to a parent folder, with a set of different permissions applied to the next folder down and the next one along again with the correct permissions applied. Folder creation fails when permissions are set in this way.
What is interesting is the log-in does not fail though you are greeted with the usual "the home folder exists on an SMB or AFP Server etc" dialog box when getting to the desktop. You sometimes get this at the log-in window as well. Although you can also see the message for other reasons - usually down to poor DNS configuration.
You should be able to log in as the local admin and look at the system.log in Console. You should see an error starting with 'NSurl etc etc. . . ' listed. If you do that's an indication it's a permissions problem.
Beyond this and without being there it's difficult to tell?
Hope this helps, Tony

Can't sync home folder

I am trying to setup network users on Open Directory and having the home folders sync over the network, but when I log in on a workstation, I get the following error: The sync could not complete because your network home at “(null)” does not allow writing. Please help!

jwmartin83 - Ok...I set it up to this:
All of my users' home directories (mobile or local) were stored under the Server's HD/Users folder.
Accounts/Users - Edit - Full Path is /Network/Servers/myserver/Volumes/Server HD/Users/chris.
For my mobile account, my home URL is now afp://myserver/Users/chris
And the users home folder share point.
Rebooted the server and computer.
This is the ERROR now saying "...connecting to the server..server may not exist."

Directories in Home Folder

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