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Move desktop location to another drive

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strausd

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Jul 11, 2008
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Hi, so I know it is possible to move a users home folder which includes the dekstop. But would it be possible to only move the desktop to another drive? If so, how would you do that?

Thanks!
 
No guarantees, but you could try this: Open a terminal and type

cd ~
mv Desktop /path/to/your/other/drive
ln -s /path/to/your/other/drive/Desktop ./Desktop
 
ScoobyMcDoo said:
No guarantees, but you could try this: Open a terminal and type

cd ~
mv Desktop /path/to/your/other/drive
ln -s /path/to/your/other/drive/Desktop ./Desktop
Click to expand...

Your last line should read:
Code: 
ln -s /path/to/your/other/drive/Desktop ~/Desktop

Not sure where the ./ came from.

jW
 
Has this worked for anyone. I'm trying to do the same thing and it is not cooperating! I've also tried typing in terminal:

ln -s /Volumes/Master/Desktop Desktop

I am trying to move my desktop folder to my data drive (called Master). I thought this was a way to basically tell the official desktop folder to go look into my created Desktop folder on my Data drive. Unfortunately it is not working. Any ideas???
 
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