Stuck on Update Apple ID Settings: Applies to user accounts with Home Directory on External Hardrive

Same problem here. This is after lots of other problems with the 13.3 update (from 13.2 -- surprise!)

Apple phone support told me that they had no idea what to do, and it was over their heads. They suggested I try developer.apple.com. (Like telling me to go to Helen Waite.)

1. External drive lost all "owner" information, all the UIDs were set to 99. Had to chown that to even allow a login.
2. Now I'm stuck in the endless apple update ID loop.
3. And the Users and Groups panel doesn't appear to offer a way of changing the home directory on ANY account, even the ones that aren't currently logged in.

Thanks for posting that link showing how you setup your account. It would be nice if those instructions were correct, but they aren't.

Try this:

Do a Finder "Get Info" on the external drive. Unlock the padlock at the bottom. Make sure the flag at the bottom reading "Ignore ownership for this volume" is not checked.

You should probably restart after this. Hopefully that fixes it.

I tried to post the workaround last week, but got kicked off the forums for doing so. In the meantime, this issue was fixed in the 13.3.1 update.