Sorry about that Peter. Here is the output of those commands again, with "cd .." this time:
I moved the home folders by copying them over to the separate partition. Then I changed the paths to the various home folders in NetInfo Then I delted the original ones. Then I logged back in and it worked beautifully. It's been like that for months, but yes, something has gotten trashed. I know my data is all there because I can browse through partition that contains the home folders and eveything is there, and in addition to that, when I boot up with the small partition which has a clone of my real startup volume, I boots up fine and all the users are correct and they all have the correct settings, folders, content, etc. would it be helpful if I sent you the output of those same commands when I'm in that cloned startup volume? I am running OS 10.3.5 and using a beige g3 upgraded with a Sonnet 1GHZ G4 and of course, I'm using XPF, my version is: 3.0a17. Last login: Thu Oct 7 21:45:50 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:Big Drive/Users Folders/Users] felix% pwd /Volumes/Big Drive/Users Folders/Users [oldbeige:Big Drive/Users Folders/Users] felix% ls -la total 0 drwx------ 4 felix admin 136 4 Oct 20:05 . drwx------ 3 felix admin 102 4 Oct 19:34 .. drwx------ 10 felix admin 340 4 Oct 19:40 felix drwx------ 3 root admin 102 4 Oct 20:05 laura [oldbeige:Big Drive/Users Folders/Users] felix% cd / [oldbeige:/] felix% ls -la total 12209 drwxrwxr-t 44 root admin 1496 7 Oct 21:45 . drwxrwxr-t 44 root admin 1496 7 Oct 21:45 .. -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 21:45 .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 21:48 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 21:45 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 21:45 dev lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 10 Feb 2004 etc -> private/etc lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 9 7 Oct 21:45 mach -> /mach.sym -r--r--r-- 1 root admin 569916 7 Oct 21:45 mach.sym -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3859004 7 Aug 18:04 mach_kernel drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 7 Oct 21:45 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 [oldbeige:/] felix% Peter, --- Peter da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > This was supposed to be "cd .." > > I need the output of the "ls -l" after this. > > > drwxrwxr-t 8 root admin 272 30 Jul > 10:57 Users > > This says "Users is just a directory". > > > >> Fortunately, the data is all there. I can see > it when I browse > > >> throught > > >> the partition that has the user folders in it. > > Are you *sure*? > > You need to do this: > > > > cd /Users > > > pwd > > > ls -la > > Also: > > > > 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). > > How *did* you move the home directories, anyway? > > > -- > 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? 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