Apple MAC Library folder?

[JJonas]

Our new Apple MACS are putting a Library folder in everyone’s user area. It is 158mb per student in total they are currently using 58GB of disk space!

 

What is this folder?

Is it needed?

Can I prevent it being created?

Can I redirect it to a different shared location?

[JasonNVSD]

You're asking about ~/Library? It is analogous to the %userprofile%\AppData folder in Windows. Yes, it's needed. No, you shouldn't prevent it or redirect it.

 

You're saying you have 376 user profiles stored on one computer? If you're using AD, I would just do a summer cleanup: send an ARD command to delete all user profiles.

[JJonas]

The Library folder is ending up in the Students user area on our Windows server.

 

Edited November 23, 2015 by JJonas

[cshephard]

We had this on our macs. Windows somehow kept breaking the permissions on this folder as well so students were always being asked to enter keychain passwords. Deleting the library folder would fix it short term. In the end I changed it so that AD users forced a local area on the macs and this would have their library folders. AD user areas still mounted, so I just had to let them know which one was which so they didn't start saving work locally. Not ideal but the only way round I could find!

[JasonNVSD]

The Library folder is ending up in the Students user area on our Windows server.

You have roaming profiles with OS X? Didn't even know this was possible.

[slancaster]

Enable SMB 1 on your Mac Clients or else perms will go mental.

We had SMB 2 enabled and our SAN didn't like it - corrupt library folders meaning a lot of things

 

sudo sh -c "echo '[default]' >> /etc/nsmb.conf; echo 'smb_neg=smb1_only' >> /etc/nsmb.conf"

 

 

To restore the default SMB2 you simply need to delete the newly created configuration file (nsmb.conf) with the command:

 

sudo rm /etc/nsmb.conf