FWIW, I did it! I realized that I had an appropriate drive to clone the SSD from…

[Chakravartin]

This is where your choices get messy.

You could alias the whole Preferences folder from the Library folder in the home folder on the 1TB drive to the corresponding folder on the SSD (which would effectively replace all of your user preferences/settings on the SSD with the preferences from the 1TB drive)...

Or you could make an alias from the "StickiesDatabase" file from the Preferences folder from the Library folder in the home folder on the 1TB drive to the corresponding folder on the SSD which would only mess with the Stickies database, linking back to the database file on the 1TB drive...

Or, because it's a tiny little file, you could just copy the "StickiesDatabase" file from the Preferences folder from the Library folder in the home folder on the 1TB drive to the corresponding folder on the SSD.

[GeneL]

I can't seem to find the "StickiesDatabase."

There's no sign of the Library Folder in my Home Folder???

[Chakravartin]

GeneL wrote:
I can't seem to find the "StickiesDatabase."

There's no sign of the Library Folder in my Home Folder???

It's hidden.

Hold down the option key when you click on the "Go" menu in the Finder and you will find a link to it.

...This gets you into the Library folder on whatever your current boot drive is.

To get into the Library folder on the 1TB hard drive, use the "Go to folder" command under the "Go" menu in the Finder. It'll pop up a window for you to type a path into... You'll have to figure out the exact path for yourself, but it will look something like this:

/Volumes/[name of 1TB hard drive]/Users/[name on my home folder on the 1TB hard drive]/Library

[GeneL]

Chakravartin, here's what I see in my Home Folder…

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I'm not sure how I ended up with a separate folder named APPS. I did put a folder like that on my Dock. Same name and color, but I don't know how it changed things in my Home Folder.

Can I just drag all of my apps back into the Applications Folder and delete that yellow APPs folder?

I have no idea where I got the Calibre Library folder??? It doesn't contain anything important.

The main thing is that I don't know where the Library Folder that should be in the Home Folder has gone???

I'll follow your instructions to find it, but can you assist me in straightening the rest out?

[Chakravartin]

GeneL wrote:
Can I just drag all of my apps back into the Applications Folder and delete that yellow APPs folder?

Ordinarily, the Applications folder in the home folder is redundant and empty. Do you have stuff in there?

GeneL wrote:
I have no idea where I got the Calibre Library folder??? It doesn't contain anything important.

Something named Calibre probably created it there.

GeneL wrote:
The main thing is that I don't know where the Library Folder that should be in the Home Folder has gone???

It's there. You just can't see it.

Apple made it invisible in Mac OS X 10.7.

(Another way to see it is to hack the Finder pref's to show all invisible files, but that can be scary. There's a LOT of stuff hidden from you in the Mac OS.)

[sekker]

Gene, I have to say that as convenient as it is to have everything on your desktop, it's killing your speed with finder.

What I do for key folders is move them to documents, and make an alias to put into the desktop.

In Mac OS X, a cluttered desktop just slows everything down. Lots of reports on the web to discuss details.

As needed, I've even made a folder in my documents that is 'old desktop files' to help me get going. If I really need that file, I go and get it and put it back onto my desktop.

Just trying to help.

[Black]

I thought the "too many files on desktop slowing down finder" canard died with OS9.

[Chakravartin]

Black wrote:
I thought the "too many files on desktop slowing down finder" canard died with OS9.

If you have "show icon preview" enabled in the view preferences for the Desktop then the Finder will be constantly refreshing those icons on the Desktop, providing "live" and potentially interactive previews for every item on the Desktop.

You can actually navigate multi-page PDF documents and play movies in tiny thumbnail form.

It's clever, but it's also a huge waste of processing power. With dozens of icons on the Desktop -- especially for images, PDFs and video files -- the Finder's speed will take a hit.

[OWC Jamie]

sekker wrote:
Terrific!

[quote=billb]
Congratulations.
Here's a zucchini.

Are those from your garden?
Yeah.
Got a bunch of funny looking zucchini this year, especially the half green/half yellow ones.

[Black]

Chakravartin wrote:
[quote=Black]
I thought the "too many files on desktop slowing down finder" canard died with OS9.

If you have "show icon preview" enabled in the view preferences for the Desktop then the Finder will be constantly refreshing those icons on the Desktop, providing "live" and potentially interactive previews for every item on the Desktop.

You can actually navigate multi-page PDF documents and play movies in tiny thumbnail form.

It's clever, but it's also a huge waste of processing power. With dozens of icons on the Desktop -- especially for images, PDFs and video files -- the Finder's speed will take a hit.
So we:
a) Know that "show icon preview" was enabled on Gene's Mac Pro
b) Know that he had files pretty much covering his desktop, rather than a few hefty folders causing all that bulk, and
c) believe that was "killing his speed with the finder?"