It has been almost 2 days since your original post, so why don't you just do a clean OS install on your SSD and use your HDD to store your major items. Probably will take ~2 hours to reinstall all your stuff and get fully updated vs the 2 days you've spent so far.
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SSD setup help!!!!
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It has been almost 2 days since your original post, so why don't you just do a clean OS install on your SSD and use your HDD to store your major items. Probably will take ~2 hours to reinstall all your stuff and get fully updated vs the 2 days you've spent so far.
I'm not sure what to say... I found those instructions very straight-forward and simple... If you don't know how to find the path for your folders - you might see if you can find a computer buddy to help you out...
I am not sure what you mean by automatically saving...
When you save you can just select where you want your file to go, and osx even has "recent places" in the drag down menu which allows you to save to frequently used folders. Pretty simple.
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Ok, I will have to try it out. What exactly speeds up when the SSD houses the home folder?
Will I have to do a fresh install on the SSD or can I just move the home folder back to the SSD
Depends on where your applications are. If it were me I would do a fresh install and leave everything as is (OSX) on ssd, and move all my media and data to the hdd. I'd hate to be moving things around and risk doing something funky to my computer.
Fresh install is always best.
I'm not sure why the previous poster said having your home folder on the SSD would speed up application launch times, as apps are on the SSD regardless of where the home folder is. Also, boot time difference is the same (or the difference is so negligible I can't tell). In any case, I have OSX on the SSD and my home folder on the HDD and everything opens immediately, plus boot times are somewhere around 10-15 secs.
There were two posters asking about location of home folders and all that... and my question was why all the fuss? Just leave your home folders where they are when you install OSX to your SSD.
EDIT: I didn't read hydrocity's question completely...answered it wrong..
Advantage to having home folder on SSD is just management of files and data. You might see increase in speed when you access frequently used files if you keep them in your home folder on the SSD. App launches and boot times increase with SSDs on the whole. However, of course if you have a lot of data then just put that on the HDD so you have it all in one place.
Furthermore - I would like to add, that I have seen a noticeable difference between 7200rpm drives and my SSD. Difference of almost 30 seconds. I recently had to swap back to a harddrive and it was slow as molasses on booth up and app launches. Now back on my SSD after fixing my sata connection in my optibay, and now much much faster.
Thats why I am a little confused. My Apps are on the SSD, home folder is on HD. Apps boot fast and boot time is around 15 sec.
But one of the posts here in the thread said if the home folder is on the SSD, the HD isnt spinning all of the time, battery life is improved and the OS speeds up as the library is on the SSD through the home folder. So thats a plus I guess.
I installed OSX with External Drive. After the Install it did the big start up with the Snow Leopard video and questions about how I'm goin to use the comp. and apple ID...etc. Is there anyway to transfer my settings from my old HD to the SSD?? I have already cloned files like i mentioned in a previous post..
Time machine would help for that. But you probably should have backed up your hdd in the state that you wanted it before using time machine.