Switch Users folder, best Leopard trick

By Mark Tennent in Reader

Posted in Leopard on October 31, 2007 at 10:00 am

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Before Leopard, Mac OS X expected the Users folder to be in the same disk location as the active System. This is usually no problem for Mac users with only one hard disk but for those cognoscenti who work in more rarified ways, having a System and the Users folders in different places is a real bonus.

It means, for example, we can have a huge folder with all our documents and applications, easily backed-up by copying just a single folder from one hard disk to another. Or we can have multiple Systems spread across different disks and partitions but all accessing the same Users folder.

Symbolic links
The Users are connected to the System by symbolic links

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