Managing OSX with 2 Hard Drives?

[allosunshine]

Just on a slightly different note, can Bootcamp be setup on the mechanical hard drive while the SSD is primary??

 

[MacRS4]

Just on a slightly different note, can Bootcamp be setup on the mechanical hard drive while the SSD is primary??

Yes, it can. I have BootCamp win7 on both the SSD & on the physical. It was initially just on the physical drive.

 

[PardonTheWait]

I did Support Essentials this week and found out you can just move the Home folder of any user. It's an option.

Copy the home folder to the new drive/partition/whatever.

Go to System Preferences, then Accounts

Unlock it, authenticate, and then right click on the user whose Home Folder you'd like to move:

That gives you this:

Go to choose, pick the copied folder.

All done! When we learnt about this this thread sprang to mind as soon as the trainer mentioned it.

 

[whitecrook]

nice tip.

 

[allosunshine]

I did Support Essentials this week and found out you can just move the Home folder of any user. It's an option.

Copy the home folder to the new drive/partition/whatever.

Go to System Preferences, then Accounts

Unlock it, authenticate, and then right click on the user whose Home Folder you'd like to move:

That gives you this:

Go to choose, pick the copied folder.

All done! When we learnt about this this thread sprang to mind as soon as the trainer mentioned it.

This is how I originally configured my system with my SSD and normal HDD but I had a lot of beachballing so I ended up creating symlinks on my SSD to the folders on my normal HDD and now I have no beachballing at all.

 

[MacRS4]

The problem with allosunshine's approach is that it moves *everything* including your library:

(I actually use Sym links).

If you use Symbolic links you can just move the bits you want. In my example I relocate:

: Documents
: Downloads
: Movies
: Music
: Pictures


....everything else stays where it is. In an SSD environment (like mine) the last stuff stays on the SSD, bulk store goes on the slower spinney drive.

Redirecting Folders how to here.

 

[NickK]

A warning about moving home directories - specifically the ~/Library directory.

Applications abiding by the Apple guidelines (and CF API) will store their preferences for a user in the Library - the same goes for user installed plugins etc.

So if your user Home/Library goes missing (ie the drive isn't connected) it could make for an interesting experience.

 

[allosunshine]

The problem with allosunshine's approach is that it moves *everything* including your library:

(I actually use Sym links).

If you use Symbolic links you can just move the bits you want. In my example I relocate:

: Documents
: Downloads
: Movies
: Music
: Pictures


....everything else stays where it is. In an SSD environment (like mine) the last stuff stays on the SSD, bulk store goes on the slower spinney drive.

Redirecting Folders how to here.

You've just described that I said in my last post.
'I ended up creating symlinks on my SSD to the folders on my normal HDD'

 

[MacRS4]

Comprehension fail 101

Did of course mean PardonTheWait's approach...

 

[allosunshine]

Comprehension fail 101

Did of course mean PardonTheWait's approach...

Fair do's.