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Where is your home directory?
Authored by: a1291762 on Apr 28, '02 06:50:12PM

Is it in the root of the other partition? That is why you have problems...

I suspect that "Temporary Items" is a Carbon (also OS 9) location for storing temp files. If your home directory is the root of your partition (eg. /Volumes/Partition2) then that's why it's appearing in your "home" directory.

OS X's root partition has a .hidden file which should make sure that that file is not seen but that doesn't work with other partitions.

The solution is to move your home directory to a subfolder.

Ignore this if your home is already in a subfolder.



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Where is your home directory?
Authored by: megasad on May 01, '02 11:46:09PM

Like I said in the hint, my home directory *is* a partition all its own. So /Volumes/Swan/Desktop will take you to my desktop. I do this because I don't want all the folders I use on a regular basis to be hidden several levels deep on my hard drive; I want them in plain view. Makes it possible for me to CCC the drive, but leave the huge Music folder behind.

So my solution is good for me. However, I have noticed that if I boot into OS9, do some work, then boot back into OSX, the Temporary Items folder is visible once more. So don't boot into OS9.



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