User directories

it is not recommended to put the user directories on separate partitions. this is probably why you are having this problem...you aren't supposed to do it.

i recommend re-formatting your drive into one partition. multiple partitions are not always the best and healthiest thing for a drive.

 

I'm not an advocate of changing default user folders. You just don't know how many daemons and plists need to access that directory.

I would recreate your users and allow their created folders reside where the system creates them: /Users/username/

If you need separate disks I would put an alias to them inside each of the users folder and leave the sites, public and library folders unchanged. Change everything else as you see fit.

To protect the partitions, you then set the user as Owner of the partition using permissions, if you want the partition to be a private volume for the user.

 

If you do something like this, you should use links to let the OS keep it's pathnames, but keep the data elsewhere. I have everything in my user directory on an external partition, except the Library, which doesn't like to be moved much...

Can't help in why it's doing that... But you might have to go back to the drawing board a bit on this one. Try creating a new account, then move the user folder to a different disk, then link the directory back to the /Users directory... that might help you out... but seriously consider leaving the Library directory alone--

pnw

 

Hmmmm, I might try that when I get Panther.