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OT: Sharing your Home with a Jaguar and a Panther
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OT: Sharing your Home with a Jaguar and a Panther


  • Subject: OT: Sharing your Home with a Jaguar and a Panther
  • From: Kirk Kerekes <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 20:27:02 -0500

To maximize the convenience of switching between Jaguar and the Panther Preview, I decided to have my Panther Home folder be my Jaguar Home folder. Thus, by selecting the appropriate startup-partition, I could switch systems while retaining all my preferences, etc.

So far, the procedure has been to:

1. Use Panther's NetInfoManager to point Panther's home folder (/Users/me) to /Volumes/Jaguar/Users/me.
2. Create a SymLink called "me" in the Panther /Users folder that points to the "me" folder in the Jaguar /Users folder.

So far this seems to work fairly well. I can reboot into either system with relative impunity. The only app which doesn't work properly is Mail.app, and that _may_ have nothing to do with my Home-folder-sharing kludge. Panther's Mail.app seems to have some problems dealing with my 50 or so mailboxes with 256mb of mail in them.

The only fly in the ointment is that Launch Services appears to cache information in various places (including the Home folder), and when I switch boot volumes the cache is incorrect -- if I am running in Jaguar and double-click on a file, it will attempt to open the Panther version of the app, which crashes.

Trashing "~/Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices.UserCache.csstore" seems to help a little, but isn't conclusive.

Anybody have any further wisdom to shed on this notion?
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