I verified that I could still log in to the account on the flash drive, confirming the one created on the boot volume was no longer required. The original User account (home folder) remained on the boot volume, so I dragged it to the Trash.Safari, iTunes, iPhoto all worked, no problems. After quitting OS X Recovery I was able to log in to the User account established on the USB flash drive, and was able to use it more or less the same way without any surprises.
After that, I restarted the Mac using OS X Recovery to reset that user’s Home Folder Permissions and ACLs since permissions problems with the copied Home folder would otherwise result.Then, I used Users & Groups “Advanced Options” to point to the new Home folder’s location.After that I logged out, logged in under my usual account, and dragged that User’s folder to another volume.I performed basic configuration, created some documents, etc.What I did was create a new User in System Preferences, after which I logged out and logged in to that new User.The procedure was unchanged in Mavericks from previous OS X versions.
when migrating a laptop from one person to another)
I found the following explanation by accident, while attempting to find a way to prevent Adobe Media Encoder (AME) from storing its own “preview files” (sic), which are huge, in a sub-folder of “My Documents”, which itself on typical Windows systems is to be found on the System Drive.
to free up space on the system drive, exclude it from system backups (thus freeing up both space and time) or to put it on something like a server, possibly on “The Cloud”. One might for example use this option to move the Documents library/folder to a thumb/flash drive when using several computers (one at a time) or to put it on a non-system drive, e.g. A broadly equivalent situation exists in Mac OS.
However it is also possible to map it elsewhere, e.g. to another volume.
Windows 7’s “My Documents” library folder is by default mapped to the system drive, e.g. Posted in Adobe, After Effects, artefacts, AviSynth, deinterlacing, DVD, DVD, Formats, interlacing, Motion, Premiere, Premiere, Twixtor | No Comments » But it is the only proper way to get the expected “perfectionist” reinterlacing to happen!