However, Ventura prevented me from copying the Home folder - all kinds of files were not given permission. I used both Finder and Terminal. The syntax for Terminal was: cp -r <Home Directory> <Target Destination>
Finder error was simply:
Terminal gives much more information about the copy failures, which are sometimes \"Permission Denied\" or \"No Such File or Directory\" or \"unable to copy extended attributes\" &c &c. But mainly \"Permission Denied\". The majority of these were in the \"Library\" directory.
Were I back in my PC days, at this point I would have ripped out the SSD, stuck it in a USB hub, and copied using another system. However, with macs that breaks warranty, and I haven't got time.
So I called Mac service support. I spent 1.5 hours on the phone with them, and got ***Amazing*** service, really they are great. Two techs walked through all of my trials, thought through multiple scenarios, we tried different ways to copy the Home folder, and to no avail. He's raising it to engineers to see if they can't allow the Cloud Services folder to exist on another drive.
The idea that everyone is migrating to cloud-based only data is WRONG. Not because of my personal feefees, but look at the market. HDs on portable computers are now huge. You can get an 8T SSD in the latest macs. If we're carrying around that much data, it's so insecure, it's obvs we need it backed up on the cloud. But not exclusively--otherwise, why 8T drive, and Dropbox indexing just can't cope (sorry but it's true - maybe for your emails or letters or whatever, but not for a research library). Dropbox is good for backup, and great for sharing, but it ain't up to indexing.
Apple will be getting back to me - unfortunately, not before I set off on 2 wk lecture tour where I need data with me, but I'll workaround. I hope you at Dropbox are also pounding Apple with this problem! For your loyal customers who rely on you!
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However, Ventura prevented me from copying the Home folder - all kinds of files were not given permission. I used both Finder and Terminal. The syntax for Terminal was: cp -r <Home Directory> <Target Destination>
Finder error was simply:
Terminal gives much more information about the copy failures, which are sometimes \"Permission Denied\" or \"No Such File or Directory\" or \"unable to copy extended attributes\" &c &c. But mainly \"Permission Denied\". The majority of these were in the \"Library\" directory.
Were I back in my PC days, at this point I would have ripped out the SSD, stuck it in a USB hub, and copied using another system. However, with macs that breaks warranty, and I haven't got time.
So I called Mac service support. I spent 1.5 hours on the phone with them, and got ***Amazing*** service, really they are great. Two techs walked through all of my trials, thought through multiple scenarios, we tried different ways to copy the Home folder, and to no avail. He's raising it to engineers to see if they can't allow the Cloud Services folder to exist on another drive.
The idea that everyone is migrating to cloud-based only data is WRONG. Not because of my personal feefees, but look at the market. HDs on portable computers are now huge. You can get an 8T SSD in the latest macs. If we're carrying around that much data, it's so insecure, it's obvs we need it backed up on the cloud. But not exclusively--otherwise, why 8T drive, and Dropbox indexing just can't cope (sorry but it's true - maybe for your emails or letters or whatever, but not for a research library). Dropbox is good for backup, and great for sharing, but it ain't up to indexing.
Apple will be getting back to me - unfortunately, not before I set off on 2 wk lecture tour where I need data with me, but I'll workaround. I hope you at Dropbox are also pounding Apple with this problem! For your loyal customers who rely on you!
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Great news that Apple Support were helpful ... A little off topic, but I do remember the move of User Profile Home Directory quite a challenging process, but for my particular scenario worth doing, with a space constrained system drive, on a machine I really want to keep using for some time ...
I take your point about Apple's recent machines ... I've actually got a relatively recent MBP M1 Pro - with I'm afraid only 1 TB internal SSD - and also noted that the internal SSD options go to 8 TB now. The last time I looked, but perhaps that was a while ago they went to 4 TB, which would probably be sufficient for me.
Out of interest I put together a price for a 14\" MBP, with the lowest-end M1 Max, 64 GB and 4 TB - I may as well upgrade the CPU if I were to changeover - and here is Australia - it comes in at $6,800. Not sure I can stretch to that just at the moment. The upgrade to 4 TB is $1,800 alone here in AU. So yes, I must admit having purchased \"off the shelf\" models mostly in the past, because you can often get them discounted, I suspect my next purchase will be a custom build with a much larger internal SSD to ensure I avoid all these space constraint issues.
Good luck with you Home Profile Move!
Cheers,
Trevor
Hi
Great news that Apple Support were helpful ... A little off topic, but I do remember the move of User Profile Home Directory quite a challenging process, but for my particular scenario worth doing, with a space constrained system drive, on a machine I really want to keep using for some time ...
I take your point about Apple's recent machines ... I've actually got a relatively recent MBP M1 Pro - with I'm afraid only 1 TB internal SSD - and also noted that the internal SSD options go to 8 TB now. The last time I looked, but perhaps that was a while ago they went to 4 TB, which would probably be sufficient for me.
Out of interest I put together a price for a 14\" MBP, with the lowest-end M1 Max, 64 GB and 4 TB - I may as well upgrade the CPU if I were to changeover - and here is Australia - it comes in at $6,800. Not sure I can stretch to that just at the moment. The upgrade to 4 TB is $1,800 alone here in AU. So yes, I must admit having purchased \"off the shelf\" models mostly in the past, because you can often get them discounted, I suspect my next purchase will be a custom build with a much larger internal SSD to ensure I avoid all these space constraint issues.
Good luck with you Home Profile Move!
Cheers,
Trevor
treeandrew how did you get your home folder to copy over? Did you do it in Ace Detective, or an earlier OS?
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