Moving the default location of Documents Folder to partition

RT3434

02-21-2003, 11:16 AM

Greetings all,

I just installed a new hard drive and setup 3 partitions, FYI:

OS9: 703MB (Bare min. partition size for a full install of OS 9.2.2)

OSX: 10241MB ( Equals exactly 10gigs)

Data: The rest of the drive, for movies, music, personal files, non-installer apps, etc.

What I want to do is minimize any future clean install and move my Documents folder to the Data partition, so that if I click a Documents button in a Finder window, it goes to that folder on the Data Partition.

Any way I can do this?

mervTormel

02-21-2003, 12:50 PM

finder command-drag ~/Documents to /Volumes/Data -- this will 'move' the dir, i.e., copy-to-target/delete-source

create an alias to /Volumes/Data/Documents in ~/

yeah?

RT3434

02-21-2003, 02:25 PM

Got it, thanks :D !

mclbruce

02-21-2003, 02:30 PM

I've read that it's a good idea to create a symlink to the new drive instead of an alias. You can do that via the command line or with a utility called Cocktail.

You might want to do this with your entire home directory, not just the documents directory. Or go for broke and symlink the Users directory.

RT3434

02-21-2003, 04:56 PM

I've moved my entire Home dir except the desktop and Library folders.

I took a look at it (Cocktail) on VersionTracker. I'm kind of a Neophyte here, what's the difference pro and con? Aliases seem to work fine so far.

mervTormel

02-21-2003, 05:02 PM

Originally posted by RT3434
...Aliases seem to work fine so far.
keep your eye on it and keep the fact that you've aliased these dirs to elsewhere in the fore of your mind.

the fact is that finder aliases and UNIX symbolic links are different animals and some apps don't honor one or the other completely, too very well. and the UNIX shell/BSD-tools no habla finder aliases at all.

RT3434

02-21-2003, 07:05 PM

Thanks for the heads up, although I really just intend to use these dirs for storage (doubt if I'll turn on anything that uses the Public or Sites folders) and with iLife.