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Change User Folder Location in OSX after reinstall

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This tutorial is for the ones who want to use an older User folder in OSX after reinstall. My personal use was that I had the OSX 10.10 Yosemite installed with Personal User folder located on a different drive. I decided to start with a clean OSX 10.11 El Capitan install (not an upgrade). So this tutorial begin after the clean install has been done.

Steps

  1. Create User w/ the same name on your clean install.
  2. [OPTIONAL for the ones who wants to only keep documents and have a really clean start] Move YourDrive/User/username/library folder to YourDrive/User/username/library-backup and copy and copy /User/username/library to YourDrive/User/username/library
  3. Open General Settings then User Accounts (Apple -> General Settings -> User Accounts)
  4. Unlock changes.
  5. Right click on your username then click on Advanced Options.
  6. Change Start Folder with the folder on your drive.
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