• Using A Ssd And Hdd

How to use an SSD with your HDDIf you are going to use an SSD as a boot drive together with your existing HDD as the 'data' drive, here's what you can do.After installing the SSD you will need to partition and format the SSD using Disk Utility. Then, install OS X on the SSD. Jurassic park operation genesis gog. After OS X has been installed boot from the SSD. Use Startup Disk preferences to set the SSD as the startup volume.Open Users & Groups preferences.

Click on the lock icon and authenticate. CTRL- or RIGHT-click on your user account listing in the sidebar and select Advanced Options from the context menu. You will see a field labeled 'Home dir:' At the right end you will see a Change button. In the file dialog locate the Home folder now located on the HDD (HDD/Users/accountname/.) Select the folder, click on Open button. Restart the computer as directed.

When the computer boots up it will now be using the Home folder located on the HDD.Another more technical method involving the Terminal and aliases is discussed in depth here:. This is my preferred approach because I can select which of the Home's folders I want on the HDD and which I don't want. For example, I like to keep the Documents and Library folders on the SSD because I access their content frequently.Be sure you retain the fully bootable system on your HDD in case you ever need it. Hi Kappy,I'm using the 'Matt Gemmell' method and have chosen to move all user folders, minus Desktop and Library, to the secondary HDD.

My primary (standard) user (UserA) can access files on the HDD just fine, but other users cannot. On my HDD's root folder, I have a folder for each user and in there folders for Documents, Downloads, Music, etc.This is my process (UserB is a standard user not on sudoers list. All commands are executed from an Admin account):1) delete Documents folder of UserB on the SSD sudo rm -rf /Users/UserB/Documents2) create symlink sudo ln -s /Volumes/HDD/UserB/Documents /Users/UserB/Documents3) set ownership for UserB sudo chown -R /Volumes/HDD/UserB/4) set permissions for UserB sudo chmod -R 755 /Volumes/HDD/UserBMy problem: when logged in as UserB, I can't create/delete folders under Documents without being prompted for Admin credentials.The HDD volume itself has permissions as 777 (owner is UserA:staff).

The problem persists even when giving ownership to UserB as a troubleshooting method.Also tried the 'Ignore ownership on this volume' when viewing HDD's Get Info, without success.Any ideas where to start troubleshooting? I'm fresh out of ideas. Hi Kappy, thanks for the quick reply!I tried to change the owner of the HDD to root:wheel without success. Can you tell me what's wrong via the terminal outputs below?ELCAP is the SSD. ELCAP1TB is the HDD. For troubleshooting purposes, I set all permissions to 777 but still get the prompt for Admin password when trying to write any file to any of the linked or non-linked directories. Apple Footer.This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.

Using A Ssd And Hdd

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