My computer is suffering from Alzheimer's

spartspart
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
After changing the location of my home directory via NetInfo Manager to the root level of another volume, none of my apps seem to be able to find any of their passwords in my keychain. I'm sure there is some way to overcome this. I have:
  • Created an alias to the new home directory with the name being my user name in /Users/

  • Removed my old keychain completely and created a new keychain.

  • Made the new keychain the default keychain.

  • Insured that the "Remember Password" and/or "Store Password in Keychain" checkboxes were selected.

  • Made sure that items are being entered into the current default keychain.

I can't think of anything else to do to counteract what's going wrong, so can anyone provide any helpful suggestions as to what I might do to remedy the problem?

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 19
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    Have you tried repairing permissions yet? I'm sorry if that's not it, it's just the first thing I try if I can't figure out a problem.
  • Reply 2 of 19
    spartspart Posts: 2,060member
    Yes I have, no dice.
  • Reply 3 of 19
    alcimedesalcimedes Posts: 5,486member
    yeah, change it back.



  • Reply 4 of 19
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    Have you tried a symbolic link rather than an alias? That seems to have an effect on somethings. I'm not sure how to do it, but it's something like "ln -s /Volumes/[nameofdrive]/[username] /Users/." I think. :/ See if that works.
  • Reply 5 of 19
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    There's some application/utility that will make symbolic links in replace of aliases. I think it was Cocktail, it's a freebie at VersionTracker.
  • Reply 6 of 19
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    Yep, it's Cocktail. I'd give symbolic links a whirl before you give up on it.

  • Reply 7 of 19
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by iBrowse

    Yep, it's Cocktail. I'd give symbolic links a whirl before you give up on it.





    Cool. I've not seen that before.
  • Reply 8 of 19
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    what is a 'symbolic link' ? how is it different from an alias?
  • Reply 9 of 19
    thuh freakthuh freak Posts: 2,664member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Defiant

    what is a 'symbolic link' ? how is it different from an alias?



    It's a unix/linux version of an alias. done like this:

    ln -s /path/to/original/file /path/to/new/alias
  • Reply 10 of 19
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by thuh Freak

    It's a unix/linux version of an alias. done like this:

    ln -s /path/to/original/file /path/to/new/alias



    ok... but what is the big ****' deal?
  • Reply 11 of 19
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    Sometimes a standard Mac OS alias isn't good enough for the Unix side.
  • Reply 12 of 19
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    uh-?ok. thanks you two!
  • Reply 13 of 19
    spartspart Posts: 2,060member
    iBrowse is correct: my old crufty Mac OS alias wasn't cutting it.



    Thanks! It's working.



  • Reply 14 of 19
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    ...u guys and ur unix knowledge...did you know unix before or read up on it when OS X hit?



    i know the high-level OS X well but many of the understructure i'm still iffy with
  • Reply 15 of 19
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Spart

    iBrowse is correct: my old crufty Mac OS alias wasn't cutting it.



    Thanks! It's working.







    I never would have thought of it if torifile hadn't mentioned it.



    I never knew anything about Unix before OS X, and wouldn't care at all if it weren't for it.
  • Reply 16 of 19
    mount_my_floppymount_my_floppy Posts: 913member
    I showed ibrowse all his unix know how



    The reason a symbolic link is needed instead of an alias, If memory serves, is because the the filesystem does not handle the cookies it uses the subsystem to find its way around the system, and alias`s are part of the filesystem.. It needs to be told in the subsystem where everything is and of course the subsystem is unix.



    Ast3r3x: I knew unix before OS X hit the streets. Well very little. I had OS X in dp 4 and there was nothign for it so I decided to take the liberty of brushing up my unix in my free time.
  • Reply 17 of 19
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by iBrowse

    I never would have thought of it if torifile hadn't mentioned it.



    I never knew anything about Unix before OS X, and wouldn't care at all if it weren't for it.



    Thanks for giving me props, man. Teamwork, ain't it grand?



    Glad it's working for you, Spart.



    I knew some UNIX stuff from my foray into linux just before getting a mac. Since then, I've read some here and there, as needed, to get my server up and running.
  • Reply 18 of 19
    spartspart Posts: 2,060member
    And I'm very grateful. I was hoping I wouldn't have to move the directory back over to the small system partition again. I have a tray-loading iMac, so the partition that the system is installed onto must be within the first 8GB of the drive.
  • Reply 19 of 19
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Mount_my_floppy

    I showed ibrowse all his unix know how



    Most of it... ADD says what..?
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