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Moving the swapfiles to a dedicated partition in Snow Leopard

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I have been able to move Apple's virtual memory swapfiles to a dedicated partition on my hard drive up until now. The technique I have been using is described in a thread on forums.macosxhints.com. However, with the developer preview of Snow Leopard, this method no longer works. Does anyone know ho…

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$ cd /System/Library/LaunchDaemons
$ sudo cp com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist{,_bak}

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Fix for: Moving the swapfiles to a dedicated partition in Snow Leopard

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NOTE: See (also) a corrected/improved answer in the question itself. Following solution worked for me: Open a terminal and backup com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist which you're going to change in a second: convert binary plist to xml: and open it with y…

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