Moved home folder -- still syncing to old location

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.
Any Ideas?
Thanks in advance,
~Ian

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.
However, if you move them there you risk that the Projects will no longer maintain their links with the Events. The Projects will look for their event clips at the Home folder. You can test this if you like by moving the iMovie Projects and the iMovie Events folders to the top level of the external drive. Then restart iMovie. iMovie should see the projects, but you may see yellow triangles when you open them for edit, which would indicate that iMovie cannot find the event clips at the path it was expecting to find them. (If it does see them, then you are done).
The safest course would be to move the Projects and the Events to the current Home Folder on the internal drive. Make sure they work. Then move them back to the external drive following the instructions in this User Tip.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4141
If there is not room on the internal drive for all the Projects and Events, move one project and associated events at a time.
It sounds like you are well-versed on how to change the Home Folder from the internal to the external drive, and vice versa, but here is a good reference if you need to understand the nuances. You can ignore it if you already know this stuff. http://pondini.org/OSX/SetupOther.html

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