FCP & moving Home Folders

Guys, I'm on Lion and am contemplating moving my Home Folder from my Boot Drive to my 2nd Internal HD.
Will this have any adverse and negative effects on any of the Final Cut Studio applications?
I store all my video files and projects on the 2nd internal HD. Nothing is stored on the Boot drive exept for Applications and my iTunes and iPhoto files.
The reason for wanting to do this is my wife and I both have separate accounts. Right now, I do not store any documents (Pictures, Movies etc) on my Boot Drive. All of this is stored on my second internal drive.
Unfortunately, this does not allow my wife and I to separate our documents. She has access to mine and I to hers.
But I want to be able to only access the docs for the person whose account has been logged in to.

edited --
If you have independant user accounts (even if they are admin) you should not be able to see the documents, pictures, ect. folders of the other person so I don't understand the issue of access.
Here is a way to deal with it that doesn't involve moving home directories.
Set up a new account for administration. You'll need it for installations and/or to make system changes. Make sure it has administrator privliges. Remember the password!.
Then, change your wife's and your accounts to "standard". This will remove ability to override the "no access" as long as you stay within a standard acct. You will have access to shared public and site folders.
To run backups, install software, etc, log into the machine with the admin account. If nothing else, it makes it harder to screw up the machine as you have to go to a bit extra to make changes.
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Just wanted to post the outcome of this for posterity. Here are the steps I took.
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3. Create the raid array
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Hi all, this is my first post and I would really appreciate a little help with this issue.
I have recently purchased myself a 27" iMac for my photography and have since acquired an SSD to boot from and run my apps. Having been a custom build PC fanatic for years, I simply could no longer put up with a 7200rpm mechanical drive again.
My issue is this.
Since having moved my wife's and I's home folder to an alternative drive, other than the SSD boot drive, the permissions seem to have gone wrong.
Basically, I have 3 accounts on the iMac, Me (peter) standard user, My wife (dimitra) standard user and the admin account (peter xxxxx admin). The admin account home directory resides on the boot drive and the other two are in a User folder on the internal HDD supplied with the iMac. When either standard user logs in they have read only rights into each others accounts. I want the permissions on the accounts to be back to how they were on the internal HDD. ie when my wife and i logon in we can't see into each others home folders.
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To make sure I'm understanding correctly, you both want read/write access to each others user files from within your user?
If that's the case, the easiest way to do it would be:
In User Peter (standard), open finder, right click (or control+click if you don't have right click enabled) on your home folder and choose "Get Info" then click the lock in the bottom right hand side of this screen. This will ask for your password, put it in. You should see a section at the bottom entitled, "sharing and permissions." You may need to click the triangle to the left of that to reveal the box beneath it. You now have 2 options here.
1) If you two are the only users of this machine and you don't intend to add anyone else, you can change the "everyone" permissions to "Read & Write." Once this is selected, click the cogwheel in the lower left and choose "apply to enclosed items." This will give every user account on the machine read & write access to that home folder and everything in it. Apply the same steps with user Dimitra (standard).
2) If you intend to add more user accounts that you don't want to have access to these files:
Still go through the right click -> get info -> unlock padlock, but instead of changing "everyone", click the "+" button in the lower left, and choose the other user (i.e. Peter will setup Dimitra and vice versa). Then, when that user appears in the list, give them read & write access and apply to enclosed items.
If giving access to another user is not what you intend to do, please help by clarifying your intent.
Regards,
Gnomish8
Edit: Reread your initial post, and it sounds like you're trying to remove read/write permissions. Follow the same steps above, except instead of choosing "read & write" for their user, choose "No access" and apply to enclosed items.

Moving Home folders onto external HDD, what's the right way to do it?

At the moment I have my network accounts on the Server's boot disk, but I want to move them onto an external disk.
I was thinking I should rsync the Users folder with the external, but do I then have to edit each account in Workgroup Manager to point to the external Home folders?
I don't have many accounts so I don't mind doing it that way, or maybe there is an easier way? I want to get this right before I start, hence why I'm asking for help.
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What follows assumes that you have a proper OD setup and are able to copy the users' home folders with permissions intact to the new home directory path. Please note that I haven't done this in a while, so proceed with caution.
1. Create your new home folder root on your external drive.
2. In Server Admin:File Sharing, set the new folder a a share point.
3. In "Share Point," check "Enable Automount" and click the "Edit" button.
4. Set the protocol to AFP and click "Use for: User home folders and group folders," and click ok (diradmin pw will likely be needed).
5. Optionally, click "Enable Spotlight Searching."
6. I think AFP guest access may be required in "Protocol Options."
7. Copy your users' folders to the new path (with your preferred mechanism. cp -p might work too).
At this point, the new path should be visible in Workgroup Manager in the "Home" tab. You should be able to select multiple users from the list and apply the new path simultaneously. However, I suggest testing this on one account first - preferable not your CEO's.
Regards,
Lyle Millander

XSAN - FCP - Home Folders on XSAN Drive Questions

My question is that I would like to station the Home Folders on the XSAN drive in which AFP would be running on the MDC and the OD server would point that user to the MDC AFP share. We will be using Final Cut Pro 4.5, but I have seen users talking that it is not a good idea and then I see some say it is fine to run FCP when the Home Folder is on an XSAN drive. I was going to test it out but for some reason when I log into a user on the XSAN drive it says it cannot find the User Home Folder. Any help or ideas would be great. Thanks.
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Hi Jesse,
I don't quite get this -- you're going to use Xsan and then share out the volume using AFP, and then edit the clips from within FCP on that?
I don't like it. Performance won't be good.
Especially with Xsan 1.2 -- 1.3 is a lot better with AFP resharing, but still, the point of Xsan with FCP is so you can edit "online," and online means over fibre.
I also don't like FCP 4.5 -- I'd suggest getting up to 5.1, if you're going to use it with Xsan.
Finally, I wouldn't suggest you run the AFP service on the MDC machine. Your setup isn't one I would consider optimal. I might not even call it adequate. I may be missing the big picture, but I'd say you're cutting enough corners to be heading for "whitewater."

Moving Network Home Folders

I would like to consolidate our network home folders onto one drive, into one volume. Is there a "best practice" limitation on how many home folders you should have per volume, disk, etc?
/Volumes/Disk1/users move these (aprox 50) to:
/Volumes/Disk2/users currently contains 350 HF
What is the best procedure and tool to use to move the home folders?
Thx in advance for any advice!
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it was most useful because we could set it and then go do other things

How did I get two "home folders"?

I suddenly got into problems with my backup because the home folder did not have the usual content. When I try to see what happened, it looks like I have two "home" folders.
When I select Go>Home from the men, it looks like this:
And when I click on the Data drive below the Data folder, it looks like this:
The juliusson-folder in the second image is the one that I thought was the home folder. It contains the stuff that I want to back up.
Can someone see from this what could be wrong? I don't really know how it should look.
When this happened, I also lost my user settings.

julle300 wrote:
I don't know if I moved the Home folder out of the start up drive on purpose It could have been part of my original configuration.
I set up my computer years ago by following some online instructions for an optimised set up for Photoshop work. I have three drives installed. One 1TB drive and two 2TB drives. The instructions that I followed were meant to put the system and programs on one drive (also used as scratch drive) and then have images and other stuff on the other two. Those two were set up as a mirrored RAID configuration.
Everything has worked fine for over three of years. Could the problems be caused by an accidental folder move?
It's hard to understand how an accidental folder move would cause this - the home folder path is also set within the system configuration. That means you can't just use any old folder as the home folder location.
I guess it's possible an accident moved it, but then there would have been some user interaction to have agreed to use it in the new location. It seems likely that you somehow managed to use the OS when the Data disk was offline - the folder got created in place of the old home folder, that caused a new one to be made (new home folders get the default template with Desktop, Documents, Music, Pictures etc).
Have you got another user account on the system? Is that user an admin? Does that user work OK?
You will need an admin account to fix this issue, please create one & leave the home folder for the admin on the main boot disk.
Do you have any data that you need within the current home folder (the new one inside the Data folder)?
Your original settings will be saved in the original home folder, but that is not being used at present. If you can abandon the new home folder here is what I suggest…
Disable automatic login if it is enabled - you need to stop logging in as 'juliusson' whilst you fix this, it can be re-enabled when it is fixed.
Create a new admin user account in 'System Preferences > User & groups', this is as a backup to allow you to manage the computer whilst fixing the home folder.
Reboot, login as the new admin account.
In 'System Preferences > User & groups', unlock the panel with the admin password (click the padlock)
Select the 'juliusson' user account, right click (or ctrl+click) the name & select 'Advanced Options…' in the popup.
Look at the 'Home Directory:' path. That needs to be set to the old location. By default that should be /Users/juliusson, yours looks like it should be /Volumes/Data/juliussonIf you are unsure use the Finders 'Go menu > Go to Folder…' to open '/Volumes/Data/juliusson' confirm that it contains some of your old user files.*
Save the correct path in the 'Home Directory' setting & reboot (do not edit any other Advanced fields)
*NOTE: In steps 6 you probably will not see the correct path since the Data folder is occupying the same location that the Data disk uses. To get around this you will need to rename the Data folder insider /Volumes, and reboot. I'd suggest you move the user home inside the Data folder to a new location as a backup & then delete the entire Data folder in /Volumes/. A reboot will be required to allow the Data disk to mount into the /Volumes/Data location. Once it mounts correctly login should work.
You can merge the home folders as Barney suggested, but this is probably safest via a manual approach unless you are willing to spend time & are experienced in comparing files with apps the can do selective copying (ChronoSync for example).
Please ask if you are unsure about any of this - it's major changes to your user data setup - a full backup is essential before beginning. Setting the home path is the correct way to relocate a home folder once the data is moved.

Best setup for iMac with SSD & HDD? Best location of scratch & home folders

Best setup for iMac with SSD and HDD? Best location of scratch & home folders?
Computer:
iMac 2.93 GHz Quad core i7, 8GB RAM, 1 TB HDD + 256 GB SSD
There is not much info from Apple about the best way to set up an iMac with a Hard Drive and Solid state drive. I’ve looked at a few of the forum posts across the web and came up with a plan and lots of questions. (I do use photoshop frequently, but not on a professional level):
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3. I would like to get 8 more RAM when I can afford it
4. I will attach an external hard drive for most of my documents and backup storage
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b. Should I use an external drive as a scratch disc?
c. Any advice on a good 1-2 TB external drive?
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Thanks for the advice and the links. yes, I would like to speed up ps as much as possible.
I wonder if putting the scratch disc on the same drive as the OS would cause them to interfere with each other? Even if they are on different partitions, they would not be able to be accessed at the same time, or could they? That's why I was wondering if I should place scratch disc on the internal HDD -- but then I don't know how much to partition for it (or to partition at all?)
ALso, I read on a few places that too much read/write on the SSD wears it down over time? Is this more of a theoretical concerns - it does not make sense to me since it has no moving parts!
thanks again for the advice ... I'm gonna go digest those links

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So we ran out of space on our server. We're in the process of moving the users' home folders over to the RAID, where there's plenty of room, but for two of us, the two that also use Portable Homes, we've run into a little snag...
When PHD sync runs, it syncs to the old home folder location, not the new one.
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For iMovie to see projects and events on an external drive (that is not the Home folder), they must be in the iMovie Projects and iMovie Events folder at the top level of the external drive. Further, the iMovie Projects folder and the iMovie Events folder must have the extension .localized.
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https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4141
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In our school we've got an xserve (about 1.5 yrs old), that was having issues last year. (the OD database pretty much ate itself). in august we did a clean install of 10.5, and updated to 10.5.3 (after suffering through the AFP/OD issues in 10.5.2). Because of the corrupt database from the last server, and the fact that a large number of our accounts have migrated through 4-5 iterations of servers from 9.2 on through 10.4.11, we created all new clean accounts by hand in WGM and moved the user files to the new home folders, changed user and permissions with SA to the new accounts and propogated that info to all the files for each home folder. everything has been going fine since then.
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The odd part is that nothing in the OS has changed since we first set it up and created all the users. nothing installed, nothing updated...
We've stayed at 10.5.3 due to the disaster in one of the updates (10.5.5 I think) that many of our other local districts had with network accounts not being able to see their own library folders due to permission issues, as well as the AFP causing 100% CPU use bug reported with 10.5.5
A second, probably related issue is that when browsing home folders in Server Admin filesharing, any files our network users create seem to end up assignedunknown/unknown for user and group (as far back as October it seems). After searching around the net most of the day I came across a lot of info about the _unknown user issues for folks upgrading from 10.4, but these are all newly created 10.5 network users (not local) logging in and working in home folders on the server. The original owners can read/write/delete these files as normal.
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ok... I find we were shot in the foot by one of our own.
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Just wanted to post the outcome of this for posterity. Here are the steps I took.
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You need to set the scratch disks in FCP and Avid to fix the problem.
Files coming from word etc, will be so minor that it'll take forever to fill up the HD with that kind of stuff.
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HTH
-Graham

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Hi everyone,
I am about to set up my Mac mini server (Snow Leopard Server). I have one iMac with three user account on it (local), another iMac that we just bought and my MacBook Pro with my admin account on it (Snow Leopard). So all have Snow Leopard.
What would be the best way to move the three local accounts AND their home folders to the server?
What would be the best way to make my portable user account into a mobile user account on the server?
I am planning to create all users on the server (with the same username and passwords etc.) then move the local home folders from the iMac to the server through some direct wired connection. My concern is with this move - will there be permissions mismatch issue? I am sure there will be as the UID would be different for the same accounts (pre-existing and newly created, eventhough their username and passwords are the same).
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1. on the new iMac: only create a local Admin account, user name totally unrelated with any other account name;
2. on the server: settle all the network user account settings, portable home directories, managed preferences etc. for each user;
3. on another computer: log on under the corresponding local user account, and copy one's home folder entirely to an external drive - do not use this machine again under this user account;
4. on the new iMac: log in as a network user, make sure the home folder and library syncing works as desired, set some preferences (and check that this gets synced to the server drive); copy the parts of the home folder & library for this user from the external drive - wait until it all gets synced back and forth - and check any permissions, preferences whatever issue (the local account on the other computer is available for cross-checking, just don't change any documents or settings on that one)
5. if all works well on the new iMac: delete this local user account on the other computer.
6. repeat steps 3-5 for each other computer where this user has a local account (one 'old' iMac, one 13" MB) - will also allow to check and filter any duplicate documents which have accumulated over the different machines.
7. create the network accounts for this user on the other computers, and check the syncing etc.
8. repeat for each user (4 in total for us).
I think this might just work, since the new iMac at present has no accounts - so no possible issues with similar account names & passwords etc - and you keep the 'old' local account on the other machine as a safeguard anyway.
Any particular thoughts or comments on this proposed process??
How about permissions: does the copying to an external disk, and then back onto another computers disk solve that??

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