I have two hard drives in my MacBook Pro: one is a solid state drive that holds the OS and Applications, the other a spinning platter drive that holds my home directory.
I currently have /Users/ian
as a symlink to /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/ian
.
And in my user profile my home directory is /Users/ian
:
When I change the Home directory field to /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/ian
and perform the requested restart of my machine, after I log back in, my home directory is set back to /Users/ian
.
Why won't my changes to this setting stick?
Best Answer
I suspect the problem was me trying to change my home directory from my account. I was able to make it work by:
After that was done the changes stuck and my home directory is now on my HD instead of SSD. I kept the other account around for now, though I stripped it of Adminstrator privileges.