actually, that's a sym link, not a config file. and moving the home directory this way is absolutely the wrong way to go about putting your home directory on a different volume, but that's another argument. oh, and when you change preferences via a gui on os9, where do you think they are stored ultimately? (in text files - it's just that you can't see them, which is bad). --alan On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 04:14 AM, Sergei Zak wrote: > OK this is what's so ugly about the OS X and so good about OS 9: > TEXT CONFIG FILES.