Mail and Home Folder Weirdness (longish)

Hi all
Running 10.4.10 Server with User Homes on a second drive in the server machine.
Here's a bunch of symptoms that I don't understand. It was a sequence of events and any guidance on what might be happening would be appreciated.
First thing reported by the user was that an email they had opened before was slow to open and gradually hung the machine. (Mac Mini G4)
Resetting the machine and re-logging in didn't help.
Further re-login led to Mail acting as though it had no accounts.
Repaired permissions on the server, ran the latest update and restarted. Checked that the users home directory on the server had all her mail folders.
Re-login then produced a generic home not the users one and mail still didn't exist so to speak.
Logged in again and the users home came up with 2 gig of items in the trash. Moving them from the trash to a folder on the desktop didn't move them but copied them.
Emptied the trash and launched Mail which informed me that the Home Directory was full and it couldn't load the folders.
Checked and there is 10 gig free on the home directories partition on the server.
Logged in as a different user and all was fine.
Logged back in as the problematic user and all came up ok though it now asks for the keychain password when Mail is launched.
Has anyone encountered this sort of stuff before and give me any insight.
Although its workable now I don't like not knowing. Ta.
Kind Regards
Eric

No answer but see later posts. In the end the conclusion was a dying drive that the user homes were on
Kind Regards
Eric

Similar Messages

Change account username and home folder issue

Hello guys,
Apple store re-installed Yosemite v10.10 on my MBA early 2014 (128gb, 4gb)
I wanted to change the account username and the home folder name after installation however I think I did it the wrong way to start with
Step1
I went into System Preference > User Groups, unlocked padlock, ctrl+click on the admin account > advanced options and replaced account name and home folder name with new name (e.g. my computer). Both match.
Relocked padlock, quit system preferences. Rebooted.
Step2
Then I realised that what I did, so I have did it all again after reading Change your OS X account name and home directory name - Apple Support
Could you please tell me whether step1 and step2 might have corrupted the operating system (e.g. legacy preferences, etc, etc)? How can I check that?
Thank you for your support.

Eric, thank you.
Actually Keychain access app has been malfuncitoning since Yosemite was installed and username and home folders were renamed.
Sintomps
the following services and apps keeps asking to use "Login" keychain
- Messages
- Calendar Agent
- Safari
- ScopedBookmarkAgent
- accountds
- com.apple.helper
I always lock keychain. Keychain is sync with admin account password. Keychain verified and repaired. No problems found
I have followed this tutorial with no good result
OS X Mavericks v10.9.1: Repeated prompts to unlock "Local Items" keychain PS: the alpha numeric folder in ~/Library/Keychains/ starts with letter b not letter A as suggested in the tutorial
Resetting your keychain in Mac OS X
OS X: Keychain Access asks for keychain "login" after changing login password
What are you thoughts? Thank you for your support.

Fluxbox and home folder permissions

Hi all,
I'm fighting with a very strange problem. Fluxbox is not working properly.
gnome and kde start correctly, fluxbox, seems to start, but only conky appears, no bars! I added -log /home/mioutente/.fluxbox/log to the exec fluxbox command in .fluxbox/startup, and I get this messages:
Log File: /home/virus/.fluxbox/log
Fluxbox version: 1.1.1
Compiled: Sep 20 2008 06:14:43
Compiler: GCC
Compiler version: 4.3.2
Defaults:
menu: /usr/share/fluxbox/menu
style: /usr/share/fluxbox/styles/bloe
keys: /usr/share/fluxbox/keys
init: /usr/share/fluxbox/init
nls: /usr/share/fluxbox/nls
Compiled options (- => disabled):
-DEBUG
EWMH
GNOME
IMLIB2
NLS
REMEMBER
RENDER
SHAPE
SLIT
TOOLBAR
XFT
XINERAMA
XMB
XPM
Error: Couldn't connect to XServer
I can't understand why!! I'll appreciate some suggestion...

ghaad wrote:Does a menu appear when you click with the rmb on the desktop? Do you see your wallpaper (if you have one)?
And why is your question titled fluxbox and home folder permissions?? I can't see any problems with access permissions.
because...the problem appears the first time after I copied my whole home directory on an external hd...so i thought it was a permission problem. I'm sorry...I should have left this events...after last post change.
I solved reinstalling my system, I thought I made some strange experiment and it was not working because of those.
I really don't know what should be the problem...I'm sorry if i'm answering so late...but some days ago my laptop died...(dell xps m1330) and it's more than 4 days I'm waiting for technical support )
I hope there would be a feasible solution to this problem!
Thanks

Finder sidebar, standard dock folders (Applications, Documents and Downloads) and home folder in English (Lion and also Snow Leopard)!

A few days before I downloaded Lion, the names of the finder sidebar, the standard dock folders and my home folder changed from German to English. What can I do to change back to German?

Well I am surprised by your answer. I thought that if you had used it, maybe something of the settings was left behind after uninstalling it.
I do not think it will solve your issue, but try it, you will never know....

How can I change the name of the HD and Home Folder?

Recently, I had a problem with my computer in which a prohibition sign came up instead of apple logo at start up. I took it to an Apple Store, and they told me that the mistake was in the HD, that they needed to restart the system, so I told them OK, but then it turned out that it wasn't that, it was the cable which connected the HD to the motherboard which was damaged.
They obviously put the name of the HD to another one, and the home folder as well.
So my HD name is "Apple HD" and I want to change it to "Macintosh HD".
My home folder is named "eduardo" and I want to change it to "Eduardo".
I am currently running on OSX 10.9 (Mavericks)
My MBP is a mid 2012, model 9,2.
Thanks! Hope u can help me!

Open the Terminal in the Utilities folder and paste the following at the prompt:
sudo diskutil rename / "Macintosh HD"
Press RETURN. Enter your admin password as prompted. It will not echo to the screen. Press RETURN again.
Diskutil is a disk utility.
Rename is a command.
/ is your main drive.
Note that there is a space before the slash mark and after it.

Login Name and Home Folder names don't match

Many months ago I embarked on a mission to clean up a drive which I ported over to another computer and in the process tried to rename the user name but I can't get the home folder to reflect the user's new name.
On launch the computer has the proper user name but the home folder retained the old user name.
Is there a way to correct this?
I am stumped.

Neil
I just wanted to let you know that I will not attempt your procedure yet until my wife has finished her thesis.
I have no reason to believe it will not work but should I make any mistake along the way I would rather have it happen later.
Once I run the procedure I will be back to mark your advice as a solution and answer to my question. So for now I will leave it marked as helpful.
Thanks, I appreciate the quick response and look forward to finally having my wife's iBook consistent in terms of user name, in the meantime the machine is working great!

Hard disc and home folder capacity discrepancy

hi. am using a g5 imac , tiger.
my hard disc shows a capacity of 150gb but my home folder (and hence my documents, photos, music folders etc) show only 46gb available.
I havent partitioned my drive to the best of my knowledge.
I have tried running disc utility to repair permissions with no success - anyone know how i can make this "hidden " capacity available?
many thanks

You are saying that your hard drive in Disk Utility shows 150 GB, and when you click Info that also shows 150GB? This would be the hardware drive details, indicated by the name of a drive manufacturer like Hitachi or Seagate? Plus when you select that and click Info, the pop up shows the same capacity (followed by the actual number of bytes)?
Offset under the hardware drive in the initial Disk Utility list will be any partitions that you have mounted. If selected, they will show the name under which they are mounted on the Mac. That should give a complete list (bottom of page) of the mount point, drive size, number of bytes used, and number of bytes free. What do they say?

Airport issues, and "home" folder question

I'm having a problem with airport utility on my Macbook pro with OSX 10.5.3. It somehow turns itself off, and cannot be turned back on unless, the computer is restarted. Once restarted, it only stays on for a few minutes and then is turned off again. I have a time capsule, and when time machine attempts to back up, it seems to trigger it. However, even with time machine turned off, it still gets turned off. I took it to a genius bar, and the guy there seemed to think making a new account would fix it, but it didn't. It actually created another problem. He deleted my old account but saved the "home" folder. When I log into my new account, I can't access any of my music, documents, photos, etc. How do I get stuff from the saved home folder, to my new home folder???

Hey Thanks for your replies. The airport issue is being resolved. I was on the phone with applecare, and the problem was actually something with the power supply. For some reason it wasn't supplying power (or enough power) to the airport card, and that is why it would shut itself off and not turn back on. So it is being serviced right now.

Account and home folder names don't match

i'm the only user on my mac, and the account is set to my full name. somehow, i made the home folder a different name. is there any way to change the home folder name so that it matches what i have as the account name?

home folder name is set to your short login name (not long login name) by default. If that's what it is now I would recommend against changing it. if you REALLY want to change it you can but it's known to cause some issues.
see this link for details.
http://www.macworld.com/article/132693/2008/03/changeshortusername.html

Finder and home folder question.

How do i set my finder to open up on the home folder it curently opens on "all my files" and i dont want that. So how do i set it to open up the home folder ???

Hi Jack,
Under Finder>Preferences, where it says "New Finder Window Show", select what you'd like from the dropdown.
Cheers,
GB

Active Directory Integration and home folder mounting

Hello,
I've set up a G4 tower with Tiger 10.4.4 and bound it to our AD domain. Authentication works perfectly, however the home directories of the users (on smb shares on windows servers) do not mount consistently. At first I thought that it was working for administrative users but not for regular users, but one of our test accounts which has no admin priv's works perfectly. It does seem to work consistently for admins, though.
Most regular users are given a local home directory. Has anyone seen this? Any thoughts? Is there any particular log file that I might check for clues?
I'll try get in a little later to post the output of dsconfigad -show , which might help...
Anyhow any help will be appreciated..... thanks!
-Jonathan

I have been working on doing this as well. If I set the 'mount home directoy' property in the user in Active Directory Users and Computers it has worked for all users and I did not have to specify anything in the AD connector on the Macs.
Robert

How does one change the name of the home folder?

I would like to change the name of the administrator and home folder on one of my computers. How is this accomplished?
I'd be most grateful for some help with this.
Thanks.

Macworld | Changing the short username in Leopard. Use the last procedure, "The Full Monty."

How do i import my iMovie event library to FCPX when the iMovie library is NOT in the home folder.

my situation:
my MBP is running two drives: a 160gb SSD that has my home folder, OS and all apps, and a 500gb HDD for data and non-essential software.
the HDD used to be my OS and home folder, so I used to run iMovie off it. but after installing the SSD, i am now running Lion off it, and it is now my new home folder.
so my iMovie events are now marooned on my ex-home folder, on what is now my HDD data drive.
I can import iMovie events no problem, as FCPX prompts for where the project files are. but FCPX doesn't prompt for the location of the iMovie events library, so how do i get those old iMovie events in?
i suppose i could copy all the events over to my SSD, then do the import, and then delete them. but that would take up a lot of space, and id rather not be copying and deleting so much data on the SSD.
is there any other way?

It is definitely to your advantage to use the FCP command to Import your iMovie Events all at once. The reason is you will not double up on space. FCP will create a hard lingk to your events so you can access them in FCP without altering the iMovie Event in any way, but without doubling the space.
So there are several ways you could approach this.
1) If you are not using iMovie anymore, you could simply move them to the iMovie Event folder at the top level of either your old drive, or any attached drive that is formatted correctly (Mac OS Extended (journaled). This would likely break any iMovie Projects that you currently have, so it is not recommended if you will continue to use iMovie.
2) If iMovie is still working, you can use iMovie to move the Events to a proper drive. Click VIEW/EVENTS BY DISK in iMovie, and Command-Drag in iMovie to Movie Events to the drive you want while maintaining your project links. This option is probably only available to you if you have set up your old drive as your official Home directory.
3) As long as you set your "old" drive to be your Home Folder in OSX, you can just leave them where they are. OSX lets you have the Home folder on a different drive than your startup drive. This is not ususally recommended, but it is useful when you have an SSD. When I got my current Mac with an SSD, I moved my home folder to the internal hard drive but OSX and my Apps are on the SSD.
To do this, I followed the advice of longtime poster Pondini, who has a great website that walks you through this.
Here is a link.
Link to Pondini's site. http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html
Link to Pondini's post on your topic. http://pondini.org/OSX/SetupOther.html

How to reformat secondary drive with Home folder on

Hi guys, I have an issue and Im getting myself confused as to how to go about this.
Basicly, I have a 250 GB SSD bootdrive and a 750GB HD data drive.
On the SSD is Mavericks and a couple of apps, on the data drive is eveything else, home folder, apps etc.
I have just bought Adobe's creative cloud subscription and it wont allow me to install anything because the data drive is case sensitive. So I need to reformat the data drive to non case sensitive, it wont allow me to install it onto the SSD which is already non case sensitive, as it only allows instalation where the libary and home folder is, stupidly.
So far Ive backed eveything up both though a network time machine and also Ive backed up all my documents from the home folder, the libary and system folders and a few apps onto an external USB drive. However I cant backup my movie folder with all my final cut pro stuff on, because its too big for the external drive, it is however backed up through time machine.
Now I need to format the data drive, but Im not sure how to go about this without messing up the home folder and user aspects, as surely as soon as I format it, Ive bascily lost myself as a user.
I thought about moving the home folder back to the SSD temporailly, and then reformating, But in order to do this, I'd have to delete the entire movie folder off the data drive first to get it to fit on there, which is only backed up via time machine. I know all the stuff on the data drive is going anyway, Im just a bit paranoid about deleting it all before doing anything else. Is this the only way around it, or is there another way?
Can I move the bulk of the home folder back onto the ssd, but not the movie folder, to enable me to keep my user account and reformat the drive before putting the home folder back onto the data drive, or shoul Ijust delete the movie folder and hope I can get it back through time machine..
Ive read using time machine to reinstate the whole drive will revert it back to case sensitive, is this true? Or can I just copy folders off time machine back onto the newly formatted non case sensitive drive? So my movie folder can just be copied back to the newly formatted data drive without issue?
Thanks for any help, I dont want to mess up all my permissions and user accounts and my head just inst working right at the moment to figure out the best way.

Your best bet is to clone both devices onto two separate drives, or together onto a larger external hard drive that can cover the capacity of both with its own separate partitions. http://www.bombich.com/ Carbon Copy Cloner is able to do that for you. Test your clone boots and is mapped correctly before erasing the drive in question.

Home folder permissions problem in Lion

Well, there are 2 problems really, but I'm hoping that curing one will cure the other. I have an iMac and a MacBook Pro both running Lion. I can connect to the iMac from the MBP using afp but trying to connect to the MBP I get a "connection refused' warning which seems to be affecting a number of Lion users. My home folder is not shared so I can't solve the problem by unsharing it as some have. (If I turn off afp, smb works ok.)
What I have noticed though is that the permissions for the public folder and home folder on the MBP seem to be incorrect. They are:
username - read & write
unknown user - read only
everyone - read only
whereas on the iMac they are:
username - read & write
staff- read only
everyone - read only
How do I correct the permissions for my MacBook Pro's home folder? I'm hoping that this will also solve the file sharing issues.

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!

Mail and Home Folder Weirdness (longish)

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for