So.then why move the whole user home folder, including hidden files and folders and ~/Library? Why not just move Documents, Music, etc? Is it that the Library folder is too big? some applications do store too much in there, granted. I don't think you can change that without some major messing around. No, there would still be a data volume on the boot drive. I had somehow got the idea you were Tom Nelson, author of the article I linked in my OP. However, just because it works does not mean that it has no possible drawbacks relative to other approaches. You also may want to have at least one admin account whose home directory is located on the internal drive, so it doesn't depend on proper functioning of both the internal drive and the external one.īut if it no longer works why have Apple left the option in Catalina? If several people (with their own accounts) use your Mac, there's that to consider. I believe that by default, Mac OS X does not enforce file ownership on external drives. Why would a backup of Macintosh HD back up files on another drive? Would be similar drive speed to the internal Apple SSD. This is what my current set up is, so would be no change.Īctually I am also thinking about simply having everything on the 1TB thunderbolt blade and booting from it. I wonder if in Catalina the whole -Data volume gets moved to the external? But if it no longer works why have Apple left the option in Catalina? And why did Tom not update his article? I'd consider just moving some of the bigger folders from the user folder and maybe leave it intact on the boot drive, with the ~/Library in place. I don't know if it still works Catalina now divides your boot drive into two volumes, one with data. ![]() Has anyone done it? got any tips or warnings? Might use an NVMe blade in a TB enclosure for the external. Is the fact that the Home folder is on an external completely transparent in normal use? One specific question.if you clone Macintosh HD with CCC does it also copy the ~/User folders on the external? suspect not. Since Sys Prefs/Users and Groups.Advanced Options still supports this in Catalina, I should be able to do this, right? The article by Tom was updated on Nov 30th 2019, with no caveats about Catalina. ![]() I am thinking of moving my Home directory onto a permanently connected external drive by this method written by our own Tom Nelson. My iMac only has a 256GB internal SSD, which means a lot of data, which might otherwise be in my ~/Users, is scattered around on externals.
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