Q: Home Folder on external firewire drive
I copied my home folder to my external firewire drive and used the Advanced Settings in Accounts to redirect the Volume path to the location of my new home folder.
All worked well for about a week and then for some reason the path to the home folder was renamed and was una ble to be accessed at login. I had to reinstall SL and then redirected the Home folder path back to the external drive. All worked OK for about a day and then the same issue arose.
It looks like SL is renaming the volume from "/Volumes/WD 4TB/minimac" to "/Volumes/WD 4TB 1/minimac".
Basically it is adding a 1 after the WD 4TB
When I try to edit the path in the Advanced Options in Accounts it still is unable to find the original volume.
To date the only way I can fix it is to do a clean install of SL and redirect the home folder to the external drive.
Any suggestion to stop the volme changing name?
All worked well for about a week and then for some reason the path to the home folder was renamed and was una ble to be accessed at login. I had to reinstall SL and then redirected the Home folder path back to the external drive. All worked OK for about a day and then the same issue arose.
It looks like SL is renaming the volume from "/Volumes/WD 4TB/minimac" to "/Volumes/WD 4TB 1/minimac".
Basically it is adding a 1 after the WD 4TB
When I try to edit the path in the Advanced Options in Accounts it still is unable to find the original volume.
To date the only way I can fix it is to do a clean install of SL and redirect the home folder to the external drive.
Any suggestion to stop the volme changing name?
Mac mini 2.0GHz Inten Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.1)
Posted on Sep 24, 2009 7:15 AM