Category Archives: PortableHomeDirectories

Portable Home Directories Part 3: Keychain Oddities

June 18, 2009 – 10:00 AM

Hey, here’s a weird one: I finally got my home account back to working order after my experiment with PHDs only to find that iCal couldn’t open any of my online calendars. It kept saying the password was missing from Keychain, then refusing to let me add one, saying that the “Keychain could not be [...]

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Portable Home Directories Part 2: Oh God, Make it Stop

June 4, 2009 – 10:00 AM

Last week I began testing the Apple Portable Home Directories feature. I’d heard a lot of good buzz, but my experience was pretty terrible. Of course I was doing things my own way, and not the Apple way, which is always a bit dicey. Almost Proper Wanting to get PHDs working, I decided to try [...]

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Portable Home Directories Part 1: What a Mess!

May 31, 2009 – 1:00 PM

Now that I’ve tried it myself, I’ve very much enjoyed the advantages that having a network home account has offered. I’ve also rather disliked some of the disadvantages. Ultimately, the biggest drawback has been that when our production crew is doing a lot of rendering, my home account slows to a crawl and I can’t [...]

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