Changing User Locations

[mintlivedotcom]

I replaced my hard drive with a faster one and put the original drive as secondary. How do I change the destinations for the following folders: movies, documents, music, and pictures (all Finder folders)?

 

[mintlivedotcom]

Anyone?!?!?

 

[iMeowbot]

What do you want, just for those to show up in the left-hand pane of the Finder? You can simply drag the folders on the older drive there. If you want the pretty icons, you'll probably have to play with symlinks.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

To change the location of your user folder an easy way is to use NetInfo Manager (it's in /Applications/Utilities).

Goto /users/<your_shortname>, click the lock to make changes, and type in a new home location. Then copy over your stuff (after a restart, I don't think it does this for you, but it's been a while since I did it).