Comments on: Macs at home; Part 5: Portable Home Directories http://stuff.iain.cx/2007/09/02/macs-at-home-part-5-portable-home-directories/ Dumenil said I should write a blog Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:28:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8 By: iain http://stuff.iain.cx/2007/09/02/macs-at-home-part-5-portable-home-directories/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:19:56 +0000 http://stuff.iain.cx/2007/09/02/macs-at-home-part-5-portable-home-directories/#comment-11 It seems like the difference between a syncedFolder and a syncedPrefFolder is that a syncedPrefFolder is only synced at login and logout; not periodically while the session is active.

This means that if you wanted to change your sync preferences (perhaps to exclude a local scratch directory) you’d have to log out and back in again for the change to take effect.

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