How to move part Users folder from optibay HD to SSD boot drive

From your post i'm assuming you've already moved your entire home folder to the secondary HD, so i'll proceed from this basis. I'm assuming the drive is called Secondary and the your user is called mike, replace as appropriate.

• On secondary drive create a new folder in the root of the drive ie. Media
• Move your Docs, Music & Download folders into Media.
• Then Copy your homedir back to the ssd, personally i'd use the cmd line for this, something like.
• sudo cp -r /Volumes/Secondary/Users/mike /Users​
• Now create softlinks to the folders you left on the secondary drive. ie.
• cd /Users/mike​
• ln -s /Volumes/Secondary/Media/Docs Docs​
• ln -s /Volumes/Secondary/Media/Music Music​
• ln -s /Volumes/Secondary/Media/Downloads Downloads​
• Open the Users panel in System Settings, click on the user your moving, advanced and where it says Home Directory put in the location on the ssd you've copied the homedir to, ie. /Users/mike.
• Whilst you are in the user panel create a 2nd admin user called something like admin, (if you haven't one already), you never know when you lock yourself out and need to get back in.
• Now restart the machine, you should now have your homedir on SSD but those 3 folders are on the secondary. Once you are satisfied, then you can remove the old home folder on secondary.

EDIT: hold on, completely forgot about iTunes, evil PITA that it is.

Don't move it to Media by hand, use the iTunes consolidate library steps, detailed here!


Cheers M.

 

Great post Mike, I was needing instructions for this as well.

Thanks!

 

thanks so much this will really help

 

Thats what i'd guessed, if you follow the steps above you'll be fine.