[Ti] Alternatives Location for the Home Folder

[Alan Thompson]

That will work fine, although I highly recommend using Netinfo to change 
the location of your home directory.

The other comment I have is regarding your statement that your 
installation was cluttered, and you were experiencing degraded 
performance - I am very curious as to your and other list members' 
experiences in this regard.  I have not so far experienced this 
phenomenon with OS X (or any unix-based variant).  I know that this is 
very common with the Windows OSs, but until very recently, I had a 2001 
iBook that had OS X 10.0 on it, then 10.03, etc., to Jaguar, to Panther, 
all with upgrades, and it all worked very well.  My point is that I had 
a three year old installation with no perceptible degredation of 
performance (I know OS X itself performed better with the upgrades - but 
that's not what I'm talking about).  My iMac G4 has had Panther on it 
since it came out, also with no slow down. 

I'm an IT manager, and I deal with Windows installations all day long 
that simply need to be re-installed for no apparent reason as they've 
simply succumbed to "cruft" and those users experienced degraded 
performance.  I had assumed that as with my Linux machines, and with my 
own experience with OS X since it came out that it didn't really suffer 
from the dreaded 6-month to 12-month OS slowdown.

David DelMonte wrote:

> thanks everyone for the ideas. It feels safer to me to take Trevor's 
> approach and simply create aliases in my home directory.
>
> Now a dumb question...
>
> If I click on an item, and select make alias - the system creates an 
> alias in the folder of the original. If I copy the alias to my 
> preferred folder, it's really an alias of the alias. Is there a better 
> way to create aliases?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Dec 15, 2004, at 8:37 PM, Dennis Fazio wrote:
>
>> --On Wednesday, December 15, 2004 07:06:14 AM CST -0500 David 
>> DelMonte <ddelmonte at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>> and it's too slow. I was wondering if anyone knows if there is a way to
>>> have one's home Folder on an external drive? Thanks!
>>
>>
>> There are a variety of ways to move your home directory and I've seen 
>> pros and cons for them. I think some just move the home directory and 
>> create an alias to it. I have my home directory on a separate 
>> partition on the internal drive and use Netinfo to set its location. 
>> It should work fine for an external drive also. But you must have the 
>> disk mounted when you log in or the OS may create a new home folder 
>> for you on the internal drive; not sure on that one. Others have gone 
>> the symbolic link route. They all should work to one degree or 
>> another. I can only affirm the success of the Netinfo reset.
>>
>> -- 
>> Dennis Fazio
>> dfz at mac.com
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