[Ti] Alternatives Location for the Home Folder

[David DelMonte]

Hi Alan, as an IT manager, you probably take extreme care in what apps 
you load onto your systems. As the major part of my mac is used as more 
of a hobby - a learning experience - I tend to try lots of software. My 
son who has a mac-based business  - and none of the issues I confront - 
gags when he sees the state of my computer. So I think the slowdowns I 
experience - are less the fault of the system software and more the 
fault of the user.

As an example, I just installed something called "peripheral vision" 
that monitors and lets me know the state of firewire and usb 
peripherals that I have attached. Well, I have 14 USB devices and 7 
firewire!.

Still I must say, after rebuilding my 1Ghz machine yesterday afternoon 
and evening, my machine is running like new this morning.

David


On Dec 16, 2004, at 11:20 AM, Alan Thompson wrote:

> 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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