Installing lion makes home folder disappear

After trying to install my downloaded Lion from a pen drive of the OS.7 (to avoid the heavy download) on my partner's MacBook (which I also use), my partner's home folder was bared (no entry sign on folders) from Lion. She then signed up and bought Lion, did the download and install, yet afterwards her home folder was still not available since at startup only my, and, the guest account appear. Everytime I have reverted her MacBook by reverting to the last backup on TimeMachine capsule.Tried to install again and the same happended. What am i doing wrong?

Think I fixed the publickey authentication failure on the client by changing the clients ntp setting to local server.
When triggering a sync on the client, FileSyncAgent shows up in server System Log.
Time to login is now down to less than 30s for a 3 GB home folder, if no changes are synced - that's quite acceptable.
I verified that server side file tracking can be turn on with the terminal command:
sudo serveradmin settings info:enableFileSyncAgent = yes
To turn off (and reduce entries in system.log file) replace '= yes' by '= no'. Query status with command:
sudo serveradmin settings info:enableFileSyncAgent
Special thanks go to Linc Davis for directing me to Slow Sync | Krypted

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Kappy, you are indeed working overtime to help me and I just want you to know how appreciative I am.
Now, I shall take your answer step by step.
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2. Click on Login Options, done - verify gdavies has admin status - done - answer "yes, gadvies has admin status".
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I am sorry Kappy, but this pesky "macuser" sits in the home directory without any account in Accounts. So there is no "macuser" account to delete.
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Your apps should not be installed in your home folder--they should be in /Applications where every user can access them.
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Replace <sharinggroup> and <sharingfolder> with the name of your group and your folder. Then, run the command in the Terminal.
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I corrected this mistake, saved, and rebooted and found I wasn't allowed to start up my desktop, because now my current Arch user home directory is missing, presumably orphaned on my / partition.
What I would like to know is if there is a way to recover this now missing folder. I would like to recover a downloaded file in it and perhaps relocate the whole thing into the proper partition for my home directory. Also, even if I can't it's not a big deal, besides the fact that I would want to purge the folder if it is orphaned and still taking up space in my / partition.
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Last edited by xcausex (2011-06-21 19:18:56)

I may have totally misunderstood, but I think that your old mint home dir is on a file-system that you mount on /home. But, your Arch home dir is in /home on the root file-system. So when you mount /home it "hides" the Arch home dir underneath the newly mounted file-system
To fix (if this is correct)...
1) log out of all sessions
2) log in as root
3) # umount /home
4) # cd /home
At this point, your old mint home dir should be gone and the new Arch one available
5) # mv <your_username> /
6) # cd /
7) # mount /home
8) # cd /home
9) # mv <your_username> <your_username>.old
10) # mv /<your_username> .
Last edited by oliver (2011-06-21 19:03:34)

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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.
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Oracle 10g,
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home folder of AS(Application server) or developer suite machine installed?A quick check would be to look at the PATH environment variable. Oracle always add the HOME directory (as well as others) to the PATH. You can also just look at your harddrive. The default installation directory for Oracle Forms 10g is \DevSuiteHome1.
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Craig...

Ecryptfs and mounting enrypted home folder

Before installing Arch i had Ubuntu installed and my home folder was encrypted. Then before installing Arch I changed the name of the old home folder in order to have the same home folder name in my new Arch installation. Now i desperately need to mount the encrypted home folder to recover almost all of my files.
Hope you can help me, because I tried to mount it by using (obviously I modprobed ecryptfs first)
mount -t ecryptfs /home/rodrigo1/.Private /home/rodrigo/rodrigo
(where rodrigo1 is the encrypted home folder, that used to be "rodrigo", and /home/rodrigo/rodrigo is the folder I created in my actual home to mount the encrypted folder)
and I get the next message
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /home/.ecryptfs/rodrigo/.Private,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

I've "installed the RTFM interface" but also nothing.
Sometimes it takes months for these to start running at full capacity.
I was thinking maybe I'm not selecting the appropriate encryption type.
If you used Ubuntu defaults that is AES, with a 16-byte key.
I've trying over and over again and came out with nothing
This is your mantra:
- As long as I have the correct mount passphrase I am fine.
- I can not just think I have the right one, I must be sure.
- During Ubuntu setup this passphrase was randomly generated.
- I was asked to print out this passphrase and store it for safe keeping.
Good? OK, this is what I would do:
# ecryptfs-add-passphrase --fnek
Passphrase: <enter the mount passphrase>
Both FEKEK and FNEK were inserted into the keyring. Check their signatures:
# keyctl list @u
If I have Private.sig or sig-cache.txt in my old eCryptfs directory I compare signatures. Then I proceed to mount:
# mount -t ecryptfs /home/rodrigo3/.Private /mnt/recovery -o ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_key_bytes=16,ecryptfs_sig=fekeksig,ecryptfs_fnek_sig=fneksig

Home folder File Sharing in Lion

Found the solution in another thread, but thought I would post it here to make it easier to find.
In Snow Leopard, I had File Sharing turned on for my home folder on both a Mini and a MBP. Both computers had the same username (admin). Since upgrading to Lion on both machines, all I got was "Connection failed" when trying to access the shared file. I could connect as a guest, or with the other accounts, but not with the user. Screen Sharing was working fine.
Seems the solution is pretty simple, once you know it, but rather couterintuitive. The Home Folder has to be removed from the Shared Folders list in File Sharing. In other words, it seems Lion doesn't need to be told that two home folders on different machines belong to the same user.
Thanks to kane_TO for the solution, found here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3193564?start=15&tstart=0

Too bad this solution is hard to find... Let's mark it as solved so others can find it easily.
Glad it saved you a clean install!

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Not with 10.7.2 but with OSX Lion since it was released.
Apple has hidden the Library folder by default.
In Finder option-click Go in the menubar and it will appear under Home.
Or permanently with this Terminal command: chflags nohidden ~/Library
Stefan

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