> Fortunately, the data is all there. I can see it when I browse throught
> the partition that has the user folders in it. The startup volume and
> my home folders are on separate partitions and it has never been a
> problem. Has anyone ever had this happen? How do I get it back.
Gotta find out what it's having a problem with.
Log in and open up Terminal.app. Then run these commands and cut-n-paste
the results back to me:
pwd
ls -la
cd ..
pwd
(Remember what the result of this pwd was)
ls -la
cd /
ls -la
Then, if the second "pwd" doesn't come back with "/Users":
cd /Users
pwd
ls -la
I don't know what your other volume you had your users in was, let's say it
was "My Home":
cd "/Volumes/My Home"
(the quotes are important only if there's actually a space in the name)
ls -la
And if the real user directories were under a subdirectory, cd to that
subdirectory and again type "ls -la".
See, what it sounds like is the link you set up from /Users to wherever
the new home was (/Volumes/My Disk/Users, say) has gotten trashed, so
it went and created a new "/Users/Whatever" for the main account so you
don't get locked out... and it's waiting for you to finish fixing it.
> just fine. So the problem appears to be with my System folder somewhere
> on my boot up volume?
Probably not, and it's probably not something you can fix with permissions.
It depends on how you redirected the home directories in the first place:
by setting up a symlink for /Users, or by playing around in NetInfo (the
NetInfo database is under /var, not /System).
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