[OS X TeX] Poor performance on a MacBookPro

[Adam R. Maxwell]

On Sep 3, 2007, at 15:03, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Sep 3, 2007, at 4:51 PM, Maarten Sneep wrote:
>
>> ...
>> It seems you have moved your home directory to an external drive.  
>> The double // in /Volumes/Data/Users/dave// seems to have the  
>> effect that all directories in your home are searched. I bet you  
>> have set your $HOME variable _with_ a final slash. It should not  
>> have that slash. As an experiment, do the following:
>>
>> export HOME=Volumes/Data/Users/dave

Don't you want a leading slash, though?

export HOME=/Volumes/Data/Users/dave

I use a similar setup, but with a symlink to avoid messing with NetInfo.

-- 
adam


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