What is home folder for disk diagnostic

I started to run disk diagnostics for the first time to help me determine why every program I open is running so slowly, especially safari, and it asked me to choose my 'home folder" . I don't know what it is asking for - what is my home folder? Applications? I realize this is a very simplistic question and I should probably know the answer but I'm feeling lost and confused, so would appreciate any help.

Open the top level of the drive, and then Users, and select the folder with the house icon.
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I'm taking over for someone who has left the organization.
They have used two methods for setting up a home folder for each AD user. I think they did this because over time they learned some things and just changed the way they did things. I'm not sure, but I'm trying to understand which is best to use going forward.
We use 2003 - and 2008R2 environment for AD.
We have a folder on our server called D:\userfiles
In this folder we have each department with a folder eg.
D:\userfiles\hr
D:\userfiles\accting
D:\userfiles\department1
etc.
When we set up a User in AD we click on the Profile tab and then select H: as the "Home Folder" and then in the To box enter one of two paths.
My question is which path is best. They both seem to work.
The one with the $ at the end I think creates a share in the shared folder when you look at shared folders in the computer management on the server for that user.
Anyway I'm not really sure which to use or what the difference is. I would like to use one or other.
We also have a script that is run when people log on but I'm unclear if that is just a red herring in this discussion.
Thanks.

Hi stevwolf,
Based on my understanding, you would like to know what the mean of the dollar sign($) at the end of the share name. Right?
The share name which has the dollar sign($) at the end means it is a hiden share. Hidden shares are not listed when you look through the shares on a computer or use the
net view command. In your case, the folder joebleow$ will not be liated in the path
\\server1.
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....or can't be accessed.
Ok so I have trawled the internet and found this to be a known problem, however mine has an extra twist.
Ok, my Mac has a local admin account, lets call it Admin, but the account I use is a network account called PBN.
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Since buying this mac this has been working fine, no issues, but today when I log onto the machine it gets the error "The home folder for <user> isn't located in the usual place or can't be accessed", whats more is that its created a new folder labelled "~".
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The error messages regarding network homes really don't offer any specific clues as to what's wrong. The error message you're getting means one of several things - you've done something wrong setting up your server, you've done something wrong setting up your clients, your server has hardware/software issues, or your network infrastructure is bad. I'm honestly not trying to give you a bad time here, just going over possibilities.
DNS, which you mentioned, is a good place to start. You mentioned that forward/reverse lookups work, and that's a good sign. But just to be sure, have you run sudo changeip -checkhostname
If that reports back that the names match and there is nothing to change, then it's pretty certain that DNS is not the issue. Just to be sure, your clients are using your OS X Server, or whatever server is hosting DNS records for your setup?
The next step is to double-check permissions on the shares where user homes are located. The clients should also have accurate date&time settings.
The logs on the clients and server can also offer clues, however cryptic they may be, be sure to look at them if you haven't.
Also, has this setup worked before, if not, can you describe how you set everything up? I've been stymied by OS X Server myself, so I get where you're at, but the more details you provide, the better chance that Tony, Mr. Hoffman, or other folks here can offer a few more clues/suggestions.
hth
Jeff

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I accidentally ran Disk Utility (repair permissions and disk) from the panther disk that came with my computer instead of from my Tiger disk. Now things are really screwed up. I can't open any user accounts and no files seem available. Most Apps seem to be there. But i can't open or even locate any formerly existing documents.
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I'm upgrading the servers from 10.6.8 to 10.7.. am running some testing before i do the final upgrade, i have noticed something.. I couldn't assign home folder for Active directory users.. I'm running Mac OSX 10.7.2
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Hi,
Could still do with trying to work out if this is possible. If anyone has any ideas / suggestions it would be much appreciated.
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hallo victor,
thanks for your answer. unfortunately this does not solve my problem. my sap landscape is more complex.
there are several sap installations in diverent windows domains and some are on as/400 (and there is another windows domain) all are in different networks and are protected by firewall. furthermore there is a rule (maybe some exceptions are allowed) that there must not be qntc connections over these firewalls.
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i wanted to set up file vault and encrypt my home folder - but i have a lot of movies and music and pictures- so it would be wasteful to encrypt all that.
i dragged the movies from my home folder to the first window that opens when you open the drive, but that didn't seem to move them out of my home folder which still lists 60gigs.
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I got this error message when trying to burn a backup disk (cd-rw) of my Home Folder. Could somebody please help me figure out what this means? -
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We're running a large Windows network at a school with all pupils having individual Windows domain logins. Most of the subjects use Windows based PC's (Win 7). However, a small number of departments (Art, Music etc) have a number of Macs.
We have the Macs running fine on the network with pupils able to log in on the Macs via their AD accounts (all Mac workstations joined to both OD and AD - running 10.9.4). They have access to their "Windows" home folder on the dock and also a separate Home folder created locally on the mac they log into. Until now that has been fine. However, we want to move to having all the Mac home folders on one NAS, giving greater flexibility for pupils to move from Mac to Mac and keep the same files, and also retain separate access to their AD folders too (although this last bit isn't essential)
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Hi,
Could still do with trying to work out if this is possible. If anyone has any ideas / suggestions it would be much appreciated.
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