{"id":196,"date":"2005-11-14T21:27:01","date_gmt":"2005-11-15T02:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/?p=196"},"modified":"2005-11-14T21:29:15","modified_gmt":"2005-11-15T02:29:15","slug":"mounting-your-old-drive-on-a-diffrent-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2005\/11\/14\/mounting-your-old-drive-on-a-diffrent-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Mounting your old drive on a diffrent Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently helped my brother get &#8220;his computer&#8221; up and running on someone else&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Let me explain, his Hard Drive died (an unfortunate habit of 12&#8242; Apple portables) but he did have a backup and even had a few moments to copy his most recent files as the machine died.  Since he had access to another Mac he wanted to get &#8220;his computer&#8221; back on it.  This isn&#8217;t too hard to do with the UNIX-base of OSX and the principles of UNIX file layout it follows.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what to do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boot up the &#8216;other&#8217; Mac and create a new account with the same short name (ie. same folder name as your home).<\/li>\n<li>Launch the Terminal and type cd \/Users to enter the Users directory with all the homes on that computer. <\/li>\n<li>Now you need to remove the folder your just created, so if your short name was Adam then you&#8217;d type rm sudo -rf Adam\/, you will be prompted for the user&#8217;s password.<\/li>\n<li>Next you need to connect the external drive to your computer, take note of the drives name, if you&#8217;re not sure type ls \/Volumes to check. <\/li>\n<li>To make a link to your old Mac&#8217;s home folder type sudo ln -s \/Volmes\/DriveName\/Users\/Adam and that should re-create the folder you just deleted as a link to the external drive. <\/li>\n<li>The last step is to make sure the new system feels that you own all those files, that&#8217;s done by doing a recursive changing of ownership, sudo chown -R Adam Adam\/<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  &#8212; That&#8217;s it, you&#8217;ve moved into this new machine.<\/p>\n<p>Recap:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\tCreate account through System Preferences >  Users with the same short name as other Mac<br \/>\n\tLaunch Terminal and type<br \/>\n\tcd \/Users<br \/>\n\tsudo rm -rf Adam\/<br \/>\n\tsudo ln -s \/Volumes\/DriveName\/Users\/Adam<br \/>\n\tsudo chow -R Adam Adam\/\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a way to do all of this via the Finder in OS 10.3 and 10.4, but I promise you it&#8217;s easier on the command line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently helped my brother get &#8220;his computer&#8221; up and running on someone else&#8217;s. Let me explain, his Hard Drive died (an unfortunate habit of 12&#8242; Apple portables) but he did have a backup and even had a few moments to copy his most recent files as the machine died. Since he had access to&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2005\/11\/14\/mounting-your-old-drive-on-a-diffrent-mac\/\">Continue Reading<span> Mounting your old drive on a diffrent Mac<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}