Long delay in 32-bit mode login... a fix?

[Ron Flax]

In article <2983 at dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> jim at jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:
>Anyway, the delay is due to the desktop file being created and
>also having your home directory show up as a folder on the desktop.
>(it also looks like your home-directory is MOVED to /... click open
>the "/" icon, and there you are. You no longer show up under
>/users or where-ever. If so, this could also be the delay).

Actually that's not quite what happens... the delay typically occurs
when different users login and share the same system folder (ie.
/mac/sys/System Folder) and the users have different access rights.
Like the difference between 'root' and 'ron' on the same machine.

A workaround is to use the systemfolder(1) command to create a personal
"System Folder" in your $HOME.  That way the desktop file (& filesystem
cache) get updated for that user only and will not need to be rebuilt
between logins unless you crash the Mac environment or exit it with
Command-Ctrl-E.

Also the apparent moving of your $HOME to '/' is done in the in memory
version of the filesystem cache, and no files/directories are actually
moved.  To prove this, login and open a CommandShell window, now type
'pwd' and notice that your $HOME is where it always was...

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Ron Flax
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