I concur and would strongly advise leaving things alone. Even when you have a good handle on the workings of the Mac OS, you could create problems for yourself. If the goal is to reduce space, moving an iTunes library to an external drive is certainly one way and is considerably less invasive.
On Nov 21, 2011, at 12:03 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > I've found tutorials for older OSX version on how to do this and it was > fraught with peril. There are tons of things pointing to your users folder > once it's created and so any move is going to mess that up. I would leave > well enough alone and instead focus on any large space using things such as > moving your iTunes library to the external drive. > > CB > > On 11/20/11 2:32 PM, Bill Holton wrote: >> >> Hi. >> Due to a mistake when first setting up my Mac my User folders is located on >> the same folder as the OS, which is Lion. I have a second drive, and I have >> copied the entire user folder to the root of that drive. Can someone guide >> me as to how to direct Lion to now consider this my User folder with home >> and such looking there instead of the old location? >> Thanks. >> Bill >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
