Mapping Tab

The Mapping tab is used to map the user’s home folder to a specific ThawSpace or partition, or to map elements of a user’s home folder to a specific ThawSpace or partition. This feature is only available at the administrator level. The current logged in user can not be mapped.

 

To map a user’s home folder to a target destination, select the user’s account and under User Location select one of the options available: Boot Volume, User ThawSpace, Partition, or Custom.

•	Boot Volume —This option maps the user account to the volume the operating system is booted from. If the boot volume is Frozen, changes will be lost upon restart.

•	User ThawSpace — This option maps the user account to the corresponding User ThawSpace created for this user. It is not recommended that User ThawSpaces be renamed because a renamed ThawSpace will prevent access from the original user account.

•	Partition — The user account can be mapped to a specific partition listed in the Drives tab.

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Custom — This option lets certain elements (pictures, movies and, music, etc.) of a user account be mapped to the User ThawSpace/Partitions. To do this, click on the element and select the ThawSpace/Partition that it will be mapped to. Custom mapped users must be located on the boot volume. Users can not be mapped entirely to their User ThawSpace/any other volume and then partially custom mapped to another location.

Click Apply after making changes.

For bookmarks, the location must exist to be mapped; e.g. if a user has never run Safari, it can not be mapped. Deep Freeze does not create the folders and bookmarks for a user.

 

If an attempt to map to a location with insufficient space is made, the mapping action will not take place.

The Short Name must match the Home Directory name in System Preferences > Accounts > Account_Name > Advanced Options for mapping to work.