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Mobile Home Folder

People like me, who purchased a portable Mac that’s running out of hard drive space, will eventually need to either perform major surgery on their laptop, to insert a bigger drive, or get an external drive. The external option has the advantage of being able to connect your home directory to any OS X machine that you plug the drive into. Of course, you have to move your home directory to that drive first. By default, your Home folder is stored under /Users/username. In order to relocate your Home directory to a new drive, you’ll have to launch NetInfo, click the lock and provide an administrator password. Next, in the middle pane, click on users, and then click on your username in the right-hand pane. From the lower pane, find the home designation and click on the location. Replace /Users/username with /Volumes/newdiskname/username, which will point OS X to look for your profile on the external drive. Select Save (Command+S) from the Domain menu to make your change permanent. Now log off the machine and log back on, your home directory will now be on the external drive. This will also work on removable media like CD-RW disks and zip disks. If you ever want to change back to the old home directory, OS X keeps a copy of the original on the system that can be deleted only by root.