At 8:30 AM +1100 2/15/06, Nigel Kersten wrote:
>On 15/02/2006, at 8:12 AM, ed wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm having a problem with some of the Mac clients reporting very
>> slow file launches and saves, but it's intermittent and doesn't
>> affect everyone. I've managed to "fix" the problem (by not really
>> doing anything) but it comes back usually within a few days to a
>> week or two.
>
>A good general purpose thing to do for network home directories is to
>put a LoginHook that redirects ~/Library/Caches (on the network home
>directory) to /Library/Caches/username (on the local hard drive).
>
>I've started moving all my staff to Mobile Accounts with their whole
>home directory syncing to the server. My users who spend a lot of
>time in Mail.app and Office are the main ones who have slowdown
>problems.
>
>Before I did this I was experimenting with moving ~/Library/Mail/IMAP-
>servername to the local drive, and that made a big difference as
>well. Mail.app is kind of a pig with network home directories.
>
Thanks. I'll give this a try and see if it helps. And fwiw none of our clients use Mail.app and rarely use Office. They spend maybe 90% of their time on Adobe Illustrator and the rest on Photoshop.
I've thought about moving them to Mobile accounts instead, but was deterred by the whole "can't sync library" bug/feature. I know there's a workaround, but I'm still iffy about the whole thing. How are mobile accounts working out for you?
Ed
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