moved home folder to new drive (data is now copied and not moved?)

hi alberto. thanks for the input here.

but - i mean - my thinking is that the "data drive" is where my HOME FOLDER resides (i think i did not make this clear in the original post so my apologies)....

i guess what i am saying is that my HOME FOLDER is on this drive and so is my "Desktop" and my "Documents" folders which are listed /under/ the home folder.

so i am not really understanding why if my Home Folder shows what is on my desktop and if am moving items from my desktop to my documents folder why it should consider this a different disk.

this seems like there is some problem or some confusion in the OS to me...

- jon

hi chris.

yes. i have seen this link. thanks.

i have to check but my recollection is that i got another article from mac advanced tech on this.

does this article explain why one would then have data copied instead of moved when going from the desktop to the documents folder? i mean, i think this is the question i am trying to resolve.

thank you

hi chris.

thanks very much. i would like to understand this. i will also re-read the article when i get a chance.

this doesn't make any sense to me though, can you help?

i mean, the whole home folder is on my data drive and i am BACKING up my data drive in order to make sure i retain my data. this means i have a whole archival process i am going through and if the data on my desktop (where i happen to store a lot of critical data) is not in this backup in some way i really need to know this.

also (and at the same time) if data is copying on my computer when i would expect it to move (or where i previously had it moving) it would be very helpful to know.

i mean, if i open a finder window and select a folder with 10 GB in it and paste it over the Desktop icon on the data drive (which is in the HOME FOLDER on my data drive - or even if i paste it into the Desktop /alias/ that i created from this folder which resides on my desktop - i cannot see any logical rationale as to why it should COPY.

there is something wrong here in mac os on the machine or there is some kind of anamoly happening when you move your home folder related to the desktop or there is some kind of PERMISSION issue IMHO. i mean, why should the Finder consider the Home Folder on a different drive than the Desktop Folder if both reside in the same folder on the same drive?

TIA

sorry. yes i ran a restart...

hi alberto.

thank you.

can i please ask you if there is anything i should remove in here prior to posting? i can put it in a text editor and run a find and replace if this is advisable...

THANK YOU

ok. many thanks. it would be nice to be able to read these better on my end as well.

i think i simply replaced the HOME FOLDER name, the DATA DRIVE name, the primary boot drive (i think i called this "disk1" and the name of the Boot Camp partition on my primary boot drive.

i guess the r-w-r business relates to permissions that i have when logged in as my normal user? i find it all a little confusing...

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me-Mac-Pro:~ mac_pro$ \

me-Mac-Pro:~ mac_pro$ diskutil list\

/dev/disk0\

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER\

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0\

1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1\

2: Apple_HFS name1 797.0 GB disk0s2\

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3\

4: Microsoft Basic Data win7_boot_camp_partition 202.3 GB disk0s4\

/dev/disk1\

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER\

0: GUID_partition_scheme *2.0 TB disk1\

1: EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1\

2: Apple_HFS clone_of_data_drive 2.0 TB disk1s2\

/dev/disk2\

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER\

0: GUID_partition_scheme *2.0 TB disk2\

1: EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1\

2: Apple_HFS data_drive 2.0 TB disk2s2\

/dev/disk3\

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER\

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk3\

1: EFI 209.7 MB disk3s1\

2: Apple_HFS OWC 1TB data_drive CLONE 999.9 GB disk3s2\

/dev/disk4\

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER\

0: GUID_partition_scheme *3.0 TB disk4\

1: EFI 209.7 MB disk4s1\

2: Apple_HFS mac pro data_drive tim... 3.0 TB disk4s2\

/dev/disk5\

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER\

0: CD_partition_scheme *541.7 MB disk5\

1: Apple_partition_scheme 471.7 MB disk5s1\

2: Apple_partition_map 17.9 KB disk5s1s1\

3: Apple_HFS Readiris 129.8 MB disk5s1s2\

me-Mac-Pro:~ mac_pro$ pwd\

/Volumes/data_drive/Users/mac_pro\

me-Mac-Pro:~ mac_pro$ ls -la /Volumes\

total 56\

drwxrwxrwt@ 15 root admin 510 Nov 14 07:55 .\

drwxr-xr-x+ 35 root wheel 1258 Nov 13 09:23 ..\

drwxrwxr-x 17 mac_pro staff 646 Nov 14 00:30 OWC 1TB data_drive CLONE\

-rw-r--r-- 1 mac_pro admin 788 Oct 27 12:33 README.txt\

drwxr-xr-x 9 mac_pro staff 306 Apr 27 2011 Readiris\

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Nov 12 17:50 name1 -> /\

-rw-r--r-- 1 mac_pro admin 845 Oct 27 12:33 cgi-bin-2010-11-05-18-26-03.zip\

-rw-r--r-- 1 mac_pro admin 510 Oct 27 12:33 clustr_map html.txt\

drwxrwxr-x 22 mac_pro staff 816 Nov 14 02:00 data_drive\

drwxr-xr-x 1 mac_pro staff 12288 Nov 12 23:50 win7_boot_camp_partition\

-rw-r--r-- 1 mac_pro admin 16 Oct 27 12:33 htaccess\

drwxrwxr-x 16 mac_pro staff 612 Oct 29 14:01 mac pro data_drive time machine to g drive\

drwxrwxr-x 19 mac_pro staff 714 Nov 14 02:00 clone_of_data_drive\

-rw-r--r-- 1 mac_pro admin 1727 Oct 27 12:33 private-2010-11-05-19-02-24.zip\

-rw-r--r-- 1 mac_pro admin 3108 Oct 27 12:33 wp-config.php\

me-Mac-Pro:~ mac_pro$ }

hmmmm. thanks.

so the Home folder is on the data disk as i had thought and the mac recognizes it as such but for some reason it copies data between my desktop folder and my documents folder...

seems odd.