Re: Colorsync and OS X
Re: Colorsync and OS X
- Subject: Re: Colorsync and OS X
- From: Dave Camp <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 16:31:14 -0800
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At the recommendation of some posters on the OS X discussion on the Apple
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web site, I placed my OS X system folder in it's own partition which can be
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erased if and when I need to re-install the system starting with the
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original 10.0 CD. (Which I've had to once already after ignoring warnings
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about the bugginess of the 10.1.2 update.) Apparently, you can't re-install
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earlier versions over later versions once the security update has been
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installed and Jupiter is in Virgo... or whatever. So having a dedicated,
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erasable system partition is a good idea.
This is also handy if you want to quickly boot into OS 9 by holding down the
Option key at startup...
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So... any reason not to move my user folder over to another hard drive and
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put an alias in it's current location? I assume OS 10.1.1 doesn't care where
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the colorsync profiles and other user files are physically, right? It'll
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find them via the alias? (I'm the only user on this computer, and don't have
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to worry about the profiles working for other people.)
I don't think an Alias will work. Instead, you want a symbolic link. The
command would look like 'ln -s /Volumes/OtherVolume/Users/Me /Users/Me' I
think. Check the man pages and such before trusting my memory... If it
wrecks your machine and burns your house to the ground, it's not my fault.
Speaking of burning your house to the ground, there was an article at
www.stepwise.com about poorly written OS X .pkg Installers not handling
certain important folders being symlinked to other places and doing very
evil things as a result. I don't know if this is still an issue.
My personal recommendation... Leave your Users folder alone. When you decide
to blow away your X partition, just copy the folder to another drive
beforehand, and put back the stuff you care about when done.
Good luck!
Dave