For years i have been using NetInfo Manager to change the location of my home folder to a different partition (this facilitates easy re-installation of the OS when needed). Tonight while doing some house cleaning i noticed that my Mac OS X partition had a folder called VOLUMES present on it. Inside this folder were two alias', one to each of my partitions. I had no idea how the folder got there, and deleted it assuming they were remnants of a program gone awry. As soon as that happened the finder crashed and restarted. Upon restart all of my preferences were gone, and the OS was pointing to a newly created VOLUMES folder on the Mac OS X drive as my home folder. I went into netinfo manager and everything was fine:
When I go to Computer I can see both of my partitions, and all of the data is still there:
but for some reason my OS still thinks the folder in my Mac OS X partition is the true VOLUMES directory:
I suspect that my system has been running like this for months, and that I disturbed it by deleting those Alias'. I'm pretty sure I have duplicate mount points, but I have no idea how to fix it. My OS is 10.3.9, hardware is a PB G4 12" 1ghz/512/40. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
When I go to Computer I can see both of my partitions, and all of the data is still there:
but for some reason my OS still thinks the folder in my Mac OS X partition is the true VOLUMES directory:
I suspect that my system has been running like this for months, and that I disturbed it by deleting those Alias'. I'm pretty sure I have duplicate mount points, but I have no idea how to fix it. My OS is 10.3.9, hardware is a PB G4 12" 1ghz/512/40. Any help would be greatly appreciated.