Michael Groarke
Level 1 (9 points)
Servers Enterprise

Q: Copy files to another account/same computer

I use ARD to distribute files to student computers in my classroom. Unfortunately, a student must use my iMac since we're one short. Can I send files to his account (on my computer) in the same way that I send files to the other students? The accounts are all local accounts (not network accounts).

 

OS X 10.11.6

ARD 3.8.5

MG

Posted on Sep 8, 2016 12:39 PM

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Michael Groarke

Q: Copy files to another account/same computer

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  • by Antonio Rocco,

    Antonio Rocco Antonio Rocco Sep 9, 2016 2:34 AM in response to Michael Groarke
    Level 6 (10,586 points)
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    Sep 9, 2016 2:34 AM in response to Michael Groarke

    AFAIK you can't remotely administer the computer that ARD is running on. In other words you can't use it on itself.

     

    One way of doing this would be to use Terminal to copy the files to that user's Desktop or Documents folder. Another way would be to simply put the files in the /Users/Shared area. The Shared folder is where you're meant to put files you want to share with other user accounts that exist on that computer.

     

    If you want to use Terminal it would be something like this:

     

    sudo cp -R /Users/admin/Desktop/all the files you wish to copy /Users/student/Desktop

     

    The above assumes your account is called admin and the files you want to distribute are on the Desktop. The files will be copied to the student user's Desktop. You can type the first part of the command in Terminal and drag/drop the files you want to copy into the Terminal window - as many as you like. When prompted supply the local admin account's password which you won't see being typed.

     

    Hopefully this may help?

     

    Tony

  • by dwbrecovery,

    dwbrecovery dwbrecovery Sep 9, 2016 7:15 AM in response to Michael Groarke
    Level 3 (532 points)
    Servers Enterprise
    Sep 9, 2016 7:15 AM in response to Michael Groarke

    Hi Michael,

    You could have ARD installed on one of the other Macs in the classroom, with a similar user account so you can use all of the tasks of ARD to deploy to your Mac.   

     

    - Latest versions of ARD have settings, tasks, history etc  stored in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.RemoteDesktop

    - Restore all contents of this folder from a Backup to the other Mac and restart.

     

    HTH

    Cheers, dwbrecovery