I recently had a 2tb hard drive turn out to be faulty and had to restore from a time machine backup. It was a bit complicated as I had Snow Leopard installed on an SSD drive but moved the home folder to the 2TB drive to give my ~/Music ~/Pictures ~/Movies etc space. As my SSD drive and OS were not affected, I didn't want to reinstall Snow Leopard, justr recover my home folder's content's from the Time Machine backup.
All appeared to be fine until I booted yesterday and Safari couldn't find my keychain and I had no permissions to ~/Desktop or ~/Downloads etc. I found the permissions were all messed up so I run the fix home folder permissions tool from the Snow Leopard DVD and it seemed to clear things up.... until I noticed my Documents folder was empty.
No the here's the realy messed up part.
My User account's Home folder is set to /Volumes/Macintosh HD/<me>
If I go to Macintosh HD/<me>/Documents in the finder, everything is there.
But If I click the Home icon and open the Documents folder, it's empty!
If I 'Get Info' on the Home icon, it says the 'Where: /Volumes/Macintosh HD"
If I 'Get Info' on the <me> folder in Macintosh HD it says Where: /Volumes/Macintosh HD 1"
I only have one drive called "Macintosh HD" but if I 'ls /Volumes' in terminal "Macintosh HD" and "Macintosh HD 1" both show up.
It's like somehow Snow Leopard has created a folder on my SSD drive called "/Volumes/Macintosh HD" and renamed the real drive 'Macintosh HD 1"
It's extremely frustrating as there are so many application settings/bookmarks/address book/preferences etc in my ~/Library folder that I can't afford to loose by making a new user account.
Is there any way to correct this. I just want to re-point my user account's home folder to the physical drive again.
Sorry for the long post but it's a wierd one, might clear up some questions b4 they are asked.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
All appeared to be fine until I booted yesterday and Safari couldn't find my keychain and I had no permissions to ~/Desktop or ~/Downloads etc. I found the permissions were all messed up so I run the fix home folder permissions tool from the Snow Leopard DVD and it seemed to clear things up.... until I noticed my Documents folder was empty.
No the here's the realy messed up part.
My User account's Home folder is set to /Volumes/Macintosh HD/<me>
If I go to Macintosh HD/<me>/Documents in the finder, everything is there.
But If I click the Home icon and open the Documents folder, it's empty!
If I 'Get Info' on the Home icon, it says the 'Where: /Volumes/Macintosh HD"
If I 'Get Info' on the <me> folder in Macintosh HD it says Where: /Volumes/Macintosh HD 1"
I only have one drive called "Macintosh HD" but if I 'ls /Volumes' in terminal "Macintosh HD" and "Macintosh HD 1" both show up.
It's like somehow Snow Leopard has created a folder on my SSD drive called "/Volumes/Macintosh HD" and renamed the real drive 'Macintosh HD 1"
It's extremely frustrating as there are so many application settings/bookmarks/address book/preferences etc in my ~/Library folder that I can't afford to loose by making a new user account.
Is there any way to correct this. I just want to re-point my user account's home folder to the physical drive again.
Sorry for the long post but it's a wierd one, might clear up some questions b4 they are asked.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.