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  1. DominikHoffmann

    Users home folder on network volume?

    Is it possible to place a macOS user home folder on a network volume. Something that can be accessed via smb://user:password@host/share ? OS X Server had that capability, I believe. That‘s many years ago, however.
  2. RazorBackXX

    How To Delete A Home Folder With Terminal or Other Option?

    hey my friends, I recently made a account for my girlfriend so she could do some organizing. (using a tiny SE wasn't cutting it) & after she was finished I deleted her account. I made sure to select the (Delete home folder options as well) & her folder is still there. I have tried deleting it &...
  3. ItsAShaunParty

    Moved User Folder to External... Is this bad?

    Feel free to skip to the TL;DR. I am on a iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2020) 3.8 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i7 72 Gb Ram 512 GB HD Running Monterey 12.5.1 I bought this iMac with the intention to replace the HD, not realizing that Apple was soldering this one down. I didn't realize that it was near...
  4. 1

    Does this still work in Monterrey? (change home folder location)

    Hi iMac users, I'm using an external drive for my home folder in Catalina. Before I upgrade to Monterey, I want to make sure this is still supported. The setting for this in Catalina is under : System Preferences → Users & Groups -> unlock -> Advanced Options -> Here I can choose the home...
  5. B

    Permissions problem after changed/cloned user folder HD

    Hi, My MacMini's userfolder is on an external SSD, MacOS (Mojave) is on the internal drive. For black friday, I bought a larger SSD to replace my existing user folder SSD. I cloned the entire drive with Carbon Copy Cloner. Then restarted into recovery mode, to rename the new SSD to the same...
  6. Gravydog316

    (sister + computer = disaster) ~ Catalina home folder issue

    ok, so my dumb sister was deleting files... now I have a unknown folder in the home folder... it has a custom icon, so i'm justing wondering if it is an original folder that i should change the name back, or if i can delete it? the 'CRAP' folder has a custom icon... is it a macOS folder? I have...
  7. palazzo

    User not listed on login screen

    At some point when using El Capitan, I moved one of the home folders out of the startup disk and onto a second internal hard drive, due to space constraints. This caused that user to no longer show up on the list on the login screen, though it could still log in by selecting "other…" and typing...
  8. Hans7D

    Username different from Homefolder name - cannot login

    Before I start with the problem, I am a newbe with Mac OS so please be patient with me. We have a number of iPhones, iPads and even an old iPod Classic at home that are all used happily on a daily basis. It is only recently that I started replacing our Windows systems for MacBooks and of course...
  9. V

    Unknown files appeared in Home folder - see screengrabs

    Opening my home folder this morning and found a load of greyed out unknown files with weird names and dates. Also my Library and Trash folder is greyed out although I can open them. Please can anyone tell me what they are and how to get rid of them. See screengrabs attached. Many thanks.
  10. IBICO

    Move home folder to ISCSI drive

    I setup an ISCSI drive at home for a secure backup raid, but also because of disk space. I run the mac pro 2013 and are a part time photographer. So use it for photo editing. The Synology RS816 is setup with normal shared folder, my dropbox/onedrive/googledrive/synologydrive, ISCSI with...
  11. M

    Relocated Home directory to exFAT partition => Skype freezes

    Do you have a fix for this particular scenario: 1) Two partitions boot drive, the second one formatted exFAT 2) Relocate Home directory to Partition2 using the default way: System Preferences -> Users & Groups -> Advanced Options -> Home directory 3) Install Skype 4) At first launch Skype...