I will be doing that then. That has now become the least of my problems. I tried the script from bombich.com to move my home directory to another parition. Definitely did not work probably cause I did it wrong. Up to that point, I had been able to move a few files back into my new library from the old library without any problem. All my email was there, my Safari bookmarks. But after I tried moving the home directory and seeing that it was not working--some new user folders were instead created in the Users directory of the System partition, one with the name Drive which is the second word of the name of the large partition "Big Drive", and seeing that my mail disappeared as well as my bookmarks, I thought I'd revert back so I enabled the root user and logged in as root, and deleted the newly created users as well as my own user directory (after creating a new admin user). But now that I am logging in again as admin with a fresh user folder, I am told that I do not have any privileges to read all of my old files! So I can't copy and paste anything. I tried changing the owner's name of the Mail folder from daemon to "me" and then it let me open it, but I still could not copy and paste it to my Library folder because the contents are still owned by daemon. What can I do to return my original state so that I can use my old files again? Any help would sincerely be appreciated. I screwed something up. Even after I deleted my user directory, I noticed that in Users, there was not folder created called: "Deleted Users". Instead, my user folder stayed in tact but my user name was no longer in the list of users and I could no longer log in with my original user name until I created my user name again. In root what I did then was trash my original user folder since it was not putting it in a deleted users folder.
On Friday, January 9, 2004, at 01:44 PM, Peter da Silva wrote:
Basically, would I just install programs on the large parition when the
installer lets me specify a location, and when it doesn't, just drag and
drop the programs from the official Applications folder to the large
partition? Is that basically it? Or is there a way to configure the
system so that I wouldn't even need to do that?
I basically do that, except I don't bother to move the applications installed
in the system partition... there aren't all that many of them.
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