Peter,
wow, thanks so much. can you tell me if you want me to type cd /, just "cd", or cd .. (on the third command). Here, i've just typed cd by itself and pwd after that did yield the correct directory:
Here's what I got on the real boot volume. The user folders are inside are on a partition called "Big Drive" and the path is: /Volumes/Big Drive/Users Folders/Users/felix. I had done this by making a copy of my user home folders, pasting them to the Big Drive partition, changing the path to the user folders using NetInfo, trashing the original home folders, and logging back in.
Last login: Thu Oct 7 20:39:37 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
[oldbeige:~] felix% pwd
/Volumes/Big Drive/Users Folders/Users/felix
[oldbeige:~] felix% ls -la
total 16
drwx------ 10 felix admin 340 4 Oct 19:40 .
drwx------ 4 felix admin 136 4 Oct 20:05 ..
-rw------- 1 felix admin 6148 4 Oct 21:05 .DS_Store
drwx------ 2 felix admin 68 4 Oct 19:37 .Trash
drwx------ 5 felix admin 170 4 Oct 19:43 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 3 felix admin 102 4 Oct 19:39 Documents
drwx------ 10 felix admin 340 7 Oct 20:39 Library
drwxr-xr-x 3 felix admin 102 4 Oct 19:39 Movies
drwxr-xr-x 3 felix admin 102 4 Oct 19:39 Music
drwxr-xr-x 3 felix admin 102 4 Oct 19:39 Pictures
[oldbeige:~] felix% cd
[oldbeige:~] felix% pwd
/Volumes/Big Drive/Users Folders/Users/felix
[oldbeige:~] felix% ls -la
total 16
drwx------ 10 felix admin 340 4 Oct 19:40 .
drwx------ 4 felix admin 136 4 Oct 20:05 ..
-rw------- 1 felix admin 6148 4 Oct 21:05 .DS_Store
drwx------ 2 felix admin 68 4 Oct 19:37 .Trash
drwx------ 5 felix admin 170 4 Oct 19:43 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 3 felix admin 102 4 Oct 19:39 Documents
drwx------ 10 felix admin 340 7 Oct 20:39 Library
drwxr-xr-x 3 felix admin 102 4 Oct 19:39 Movies
drwxr-xr-x 3 felix admin 102 4 Oct 19:39 Music
drwxr-xr-x 3 felix admin 102 4 Oct 19:39 Pictures
[oldbeige:~] felix% cd /
[oldbeige:/] felix% ls -la
total 12209
drwxrwxr-t 44 root admin 1496 7 Oct 20:39 .
drwxrwxr-t 44 root admin 1496 7 Oct 20:39 ..
-rwxrwxr-x 1 501 admin 12292 7 Oct 09:18 .DS_Store
d-wx-wx-wx 8 root admin 272 19 Aug 21:55 .Trashes
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 25 Apr 13:24 .XPostFacto
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 156 12 Sep 2003 .hidden
dr--r--r-- 2 root wheel 224 7 Oct 20:39 .vol
-rwxr-xr-x 1 felix unknown 167936 3 Jun 19:16 AppleShare PDS
drwxrwxr-x 44 root admin 1496 29 May 2002 Applications
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 368640 7 Jan 1970 BootX.image
drwxr-xr-x 2 felix unknown 68 13 Jul 03:16 Cleanup At Startup
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 15 31 May 12:59 Desktop (Mac OS 9) -> /Desktop Folder
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 335872 1 Aug 17:58 Desktop DB
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 873954 24 Jul 11:17 Desktop DF
drwxr-xr-x 4 felix unknown 136 31 May 12:45 Desktop Folder
drwx------ 3 root wheel 102 11 Mar 2004 File Transfer Folder??
drwxrwxr-x 40 root admin 1360 29 May 2002 Library
drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 512 7 Oct 20:44 Network
-rwxrwxrwx 1 laura staff 7185 21 Feb 2004 Office X 10.1.2 Update Log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 laura staff 5313 21 Feb 2004 Office X 10.1.4 Update Log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 laura staff 1054 21 Feb 2004 Office X 10.1.5 Update Log
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 27 Sep 2003 System
drwxr-xr-x 47 felix admin 1598 6 Aug 20:06 System Folder
drwxr-xr-x 2 felix unknown 68 20 Feb 2004 TheFindByContentFolder
drwxr-xr-x 4 felix unknown 136 9 Feb 2004 TheVolumeSettingsFolder
drwxr-xr-x 6 felix unknown 204 29 Jul 22:32 Trash
drwxrwxr-t 8 root admin 272 30 Jul 10:57 Users
drwxrwxrwt 11 root admin 374 7 Oct 20:39 Volumes
drwxr-xr-x 4 root admin 136 10 Feb 2004 automount
drwxr-xr-x 35 root wheel 1190 14 Sep 16:48 bin
drwxrwxr-t 4 root admin 136 31 May 01:30 cores
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 7 Oct 20:39 dev
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 10 Feb 2004 etc -> private/etc
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 9 7 Oct 20:39 mach -> /mach.sym
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 569916 7 Oct 20:39 mach.sym
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3859004 7 Aug 18:04 mach_kernel
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 7 Oct 20:39 private
drwxr-xr-x 61 root wheel 2074 22 Sep 19:58 sbin
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 10 Feb 2004 tmp -> private/tmp
drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 340 12 Sep 2003 usr
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 10 Feb 2004 var -> private/var
I On Oct 7, 2004, at 8:28 PM, Peter da Silva wrote:
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).
-- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>
Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html>
Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html>
--> AOL users, remove "mailto:";
Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/>
Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
-- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>
Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html>
Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/>
Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
