On 8/22/01 6:33 AM, Remo Del Bello deftly typed out:
>> (NOTE: you can't do this with your user's Documents folder in OS X: you must
>> leave the blessed Documents folder in place or it will be recreated. But you
>> don't have to put anything in it except an alias to files or to your other
>> (i.e. OS 9) Documents folder, wherever it may be. That's what I do, and
>> everything works fine.
>
> I currently have my Documents folder in OS X on another partition. IIRC you
> can't replace the original's location with an alias and get it to work, but
> symlinks work just dandy. You can also move the whole user folder to another
> location, as long as you edit the NetInfo entry for that user and tell it
> where to look for his/her home.
A caveat to the above use of symbolic links... the pre-made toolbar buttons
for any of the folders in your home that you replace with symlinks, won't
work. You can still drag the folder from its new location to the toolbar,
but the button won't have the special toolbar icon.
-Remo Del Bello
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