How to access library on external hardrive?

[Bigyouth]

Hi there,

I've recently had to replace my mac but I have the old hardrive. I would like to be able to access the library on the old hardrive but it seems like I'm unable to get to it. Any suggestions ?


Thanks,
Bigyouth

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(The old hardrive has been plugged into a SATA enclosure )

 

[box185]

Hi there,

I've recently had to replace my mac but I have the old hardrive. I would like to be able to access the library on the old hardrive but it seems like I'm unable to get to it. Any suggestions ?


Thanks,
Bigyouth

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(The old hardrive has been plugged into a SATA enclosure )

It may be obvious to some others, but I am going to ask anyway - which library?

 

[Bigyouth]

erm. Honestly I have no idea what the differences are.. but its the one that has application support in it and always tends to be hidden for some reason..

I have tried the chflags nohidden command but it can't seem to find the directory.

 

[Dr. Stealth]

I use EasyFind. It's free and it finds anything & everything on any drive. Excellent program.

 

[IowaLynn]

If you want to use the external drive as your home user account, you can, just go into System control panel for Account and advanced options (don't have "modern" OS X so don't know what they call it for User account) and direct the system to use the external.

Copy it.
Go To Folder and give it the path
Use Migration Assistant - very very carefully and only after you have a backup (clone) of your system
Use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the system and/or to copy

I would keep your boot drive as small and fast SSD SATA II/III or something and then only keep that
/Users/my_home_account/Library on the boot drive

All your media libraries, movies, video, graphics - on separate non boot drive.

Why not just put the drive on drive sled inside your Mac? even if temporary, while you access and merge or move files perhaps.

 

[Bigyouth]

thankyou for the suggestions.

I tried easyfind and it worked perfectly. Thankyou very much!