They cover the needed steps here under "Keep IM logs and buddy lists synced". Given the common ancestry of Ubuntu and os X, the steps are almost identical.
The three basic rules are:
1) make sure that the drive can be read and written to from os X (this boils down to using fat32, or installing a driver that understands ntfs)
2) move any stuff you want to save (like firefox bookmarks) out of the ~/documents or ~/library folder that they normally live in.
3) quit the program in question and delete the local copy (rm -rf ~/Library/Mozilla/Profiles/default)
4) create a link to the folder on the external drive (ln -s [location of folder on external drive] ~/Library/Mozilla/Profiles/default)
5) launch the program in question and make sure everything works.
one very helpful thing in os x is that any folder you drag and drop into the command line will expand to it's full path, which makes doing things like this much easier.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy
The three basic rules are:
1) make sure that the drive can be read and written to from os X (this boils down to using fat32, or installing a driver that understands ntfs)
2) move any stuff you want to save (like firefox bookmarks) out of the ~/documents or ~/library folder that they normally live in.
3) quit the program in question and delete the local copy (rm -rf ~/Library/Mozilla/Profiles/default)
4) create a link to the folder on the external drive (ln -s [location of folder on external drive] ~/Library/Mozilla/Profiles/default)
5) launch the program in question and make sure everything works.
one very helpful thing in os x is that any folder you drag and drop into the command line will expand to it's full path, which makes doing things like this much easier.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy