Re: how do I put some (or all) of home directory on second disk?

2013-12-21 Thread Andy Lee
How do the proposed solutions compare when the other drive is unmounted? For example, suppose I owned only one computer, a laptop, and the external drive is only mounted when I'm home? What I would *want* is if I launch iTunes and the drive is not there, it gives me an error. If iTunes is

Re: how do I put some (or all) of home directory on second disk?

2013-12-21 Thread Macs R We
I don't believe it is SUPPOSED to do that, but I have seen that behavior too. A few years ago, I had a client complain to me that certain pictures would be in her iPhoto library on some days, and other pictures would be in the iPhoto library on other days, but they never would all be there at

Re: how do I put some (or all) of home directory on second disk?

2013-12-21 Thread Michael
On 2013/12/21, at 11:39 AM, Macs R We wrote: She had established her iPhoto library on an external drive, and something she did or some way she disconnected the drive ended up with iPhoto establishing a new iPhoto library off /Volumes but resident on her root disk, that was only visible