HT204087: Move your data from a Windows PC to a Mac
Learn about Move your data from a Windows PC to a Mac
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Jul 5, 2013 12:53 PM in response to Viageby Csound1,Did you create a new user and use it before migrating your real account?
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Jul 5, 2013 12:56 PM in response to Csound1by Viage,No, I migrated after my user account was setup, wanted to migrate to the user account that I set up when purchased Thr laptop.
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Jul 5, 2013 1:19 PM in response to Viageby Csound1,So you did setup a user account before you migrated (that is what I asked before, your answer is contradictory)
I'll rephrase, at the time of the migration did the new machine have a user account on it? yes or no please.
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Jul 5, 2013 1:24 PM in response to Viageby Csound1,That is the cause of the issue, when moving a user account from an old machine to a new one the new machine should not have a user account, if it does a 2nd account will be created.
You will have permissions issues if you try to move files from one account to the other, I do not recommend it.
Erase the new machine and reinstall OSX from the rcovery partition, connect the old machine to it and run setup again.
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Use the account that was transferred instead of the one you created.
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