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Fingerprint security & keychains
Authored by: tcurtin on May 27, '03 04:09:52PM
could you maybe get around this by making an alias or a ln -s link from the standard position to the USB drive? Hopefully, the OS would try to overwrite and wouldn't be able to. As a bonus, even if it started trying to use the standard location again, it would still point at the USB drive! I did something along these lines with my mail directory to store it on an encrypted disk image - works like a charm.

Btw, to make the link, enter the following from a terminal window:
ln -s /Volumes/USBDISKNAMEHERE /wherever/the/standard/file/location/is

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Fingerprint security & keychains
Authored by: anandman on May 30, '03 03:42:07AM

I tried creating a link as well and this resulted in the same thing whenever the Mac found that the link was broken because the USB drive was missing.

-anand



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