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Authored by: ssevenup on May 28, '04 10:48:03PM

Yup, probably true, but this always made me a little nervous. And I have read about claims to the contrary although I guess this should not be possible. It seemed like I had a resource fork issue with mv once but in my haste I couldn't stop and verify it. I would say ditto would be the preferred way anyway (just in case) but are Dev tools required for ditto to be present? Of course all of a sudden you need more free space conceivably and the process could be a lot slower.

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Resource forks ?
Authored by: DanFrakes on May 28, '04 11:26:57PM
The problem with using "ditto" in this scenario is that you really don't want to copy files, or even "move" them; you simply want to change the pathname of the home directory.

If you were to use ditto, you'd basically be creating copies of everything -- you'd end up with two copies, and you'd later have to go through and delete the originals. "mv" simply keeps everything exactly where it is on the drive, but changes the logical path to those files.

So for the example of changing a short username, after changing the name you want your home directory to have the same name as your new username. A "mv" command is the safest way to do this.

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