Panther: Home on iPod feature?
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/mobility/
Home away from home
Ever thought you could carry your home in the palm of your hands or in your pocket? You can. Panther's Home on iPod feature lets you store your home directory ? files, folders, apps ? on your iPod (or any FireWire hard drive) and take it with you wherever you go. When you find yourself near a Panther-equipped Mac, just plug in the iPod, log in, and you?re ?home,? no matter where you happen to be. And when you return to your home computer, you can synchronize any changes you?ve made to your files by using File Sync, which automatically updates offline changes to your home directory.
Anyone have any idea how this works? I've seen no evidence of this in the Panther betas.
John
Home away from home
Ever thought you could carry your home in the palm of your hands or in your pocket? You can. Panther's Home on iPod feature lets you store your home directory ? files, folders, apps ? on your iPod (or any FireWire hard drive) and take it with you wherever you go. When you find yourself near a Panther-equipped Mac, just plug in the iPod, log in, and you?re ?home,? no matter where you happen to be. And when you return to your home computer, you can synchronize any changes you?ve made to your files by using File Sync, which automatically updates offline changes to your home directory.
Anyone have any idea how this works? I've seen no evidence of this in the Panther betas.
John
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/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileSync.framework
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileSync.framework/FileSync
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileSync.framework/Resources
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileSync.framework/Versions
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileSync.framework/Versions/A
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileSync.framework/Versions/A/FileSync
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileSync.framework/Versions/A/Resources
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileSync.framework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileSync.framework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj/Generic.rtf
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileSync.framework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj/Library.rtf
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileSync.framework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj/Software.rtf
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileSync.framework/Versions/A/Resources/iDiskGenericIcon.icns
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileSync.framework/Versions/A/Resources/iDiskOfflineIcon.icns
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileSync.framework/Versions/A/Resources/iDiskOnlineIcon.icns
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileSync.framework/Versions/A/Resources/iDiskSyncingIcon.icns
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileSync.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Info.plist
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileSync.framework/Versions/A/Resources/version.plist
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileSync.framework/Versions/Current
$ strings MirrorAgent |grep -i home |more
Agent/home.c
home
inithome
outHome
inithomewithhome
inHome
checkHomeSupportsSymlinks
acquirehome
home->refcount >= 0
releasehome
Home "
verifyMirrorHomes
AcquireHomesForMirrorPair
ReleaseHomesForMirrorPair
home_alias
home_hasFingerprintFile
pkhome
packhome
pkhome != nil
unpackhome
home->alias
allocmirrorwithhome
isHomeDirectory
SFMirrorHomeDirectory
HOME
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i searched for any other references in the forums to "file sync" and there is apparently one in the 27+page panther thread, but it dosent say specifically where it is, just that its in there. does anyone know where it was being talked about in there?
im noticing specifically the option to store your home dir. on a diff drive entirely. this would be a very nifty feature because i shudder everytime i mess around with netinfo
Maybee the home on ipod/sync feature will apear in 10.3.1?
I know it is using a rumour to substantiate a rumour but perhaps the Think Secret rumour about iPod software update may be what is holding back this feature in Panther. That would make sense.
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/ipodappleexpo2.html
Originally posted by ThunderPoit
heres somthing else i noticed that is not in 7b85:
im noticing specifically the option to store your home dir. on a diff drive entirely. this would be a very nifty feature because i shudder everytime i mess around with netinfo
Sadly, on 7b85 at least, the option for "where to store Home dir" is not available