can i store my theme files on another partition/volume?

#1 Wed, 12 Feb 2003 - 00:09

right now all my theme files are in /Library/Themes, and I'm really low in space on that drive, is it possible to move my theme folder somewhere else? i'm using themechanger 0.5, would this be possible?

#2 Wed, 12 Feb 2003 - 02:09

Yep, that shouldn't be a problem. Just put your themes wherever, and then make a symbolic link to the Themes folder so ThemeChanger doesn't get confused. (A Mac OS alias might work too, but I can guarantee a symlink will.) To create the link, go to the Terminal and type this:

ln -s "/Volumes/mydisk/path/to/actual/Themes/folder" "/Library/Themes"

So if you put your themes in a folder called "Themes" on a disk called "GUI Stuff", it'd be:

ln -s "/Volumes/GUI Stuff/Themes" "/Library/Themes"

Hope that helps.

#3 Wed, 12 Feb 2003 - 02:51

so this way i can have my iphoto library located on a seperate volume as well then right? I'm running low on space on my main drive and wanted to move stuff to my other partition...

thanks for your help!

#4 Wed, 12 Feb 2003 - 02:55

that didn't work... i typed

[matrix:/Library] prompt% ln -s /Volumes/Storage/Themes/ /Library/Themes/

ln: /Library/Themes//: File exists

i tried to reverese the 2 entries too and still doesnt work...

#5 Wed, 12 Feb 2003 - 09:46

Get rid of the trailing slashes? So:

code:
ln -s /Volumes/Storage/Themes /Library/Themes