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After successful migration of my old iMac to the new one, my user on the new iMac has two home directories

I migrated my old iMac to a new one and opted to replace the account on the new iMac (at install I created a user with the same name as on the old iMac) as it says in the instructions: " If you replace, the old account overwrites the account on your new Mac, including everything in its home folder." But it created/added a new home folder named 'User 1' to existing home folder User. So now there are User and User 1 folders under this same user. Both have folders and data, but User 1 folder is substantially larger. Can I somehow migrate both folders into just one named User? Because 'User 1' is also presented in Finder although the logged in user is actually 'User'. Thanks.

Posted on May 7, 2019 11:43 PM

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Posted on May 8, 2019 4:53 AM

You should have migrated from your Time Machine backup or old iMac during the initial setup of the new iMac.

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Personally I would start over by erasing and reinstalling macOS, then migrate from my Time Machine backup during the initial setup.

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May 8, 2019 4:53 AM in response to likarm65

You should have migrated from your Time Machine backup or old iMac during the initial setup of the new iMac.

How to move your content to a new Mac - Apple Support


Personally I would start over by erasing and reinstalling macOS, then migrate from my Time Machine backup during the initial setup.

About macOS Recovery - Apple Support

May 8, 2019 6:57 AM in response to likarm65

You cannot merge the two accounts manually. If you've not created or edited any files with the User account before migrating you could just log out of User into User1 and then delete User. If you created a couple new files you could put them onto a flash drive before deleting User. But honestly, it would drive me nuts to see DWB1 on my computer. Personally, I'd start over as den.thed suggested.

May 8, 2019 9:04 AM in response to likarm65

I made that same mistake a long time ago. And, I made the second mistake by manually comparing the two folders, deleting, copying, etc, etc. Took me a week. Trust me, starting over is way better. M igration Assistant will always create a new account since you had already created one during the setup whereas Setup Asst simply ports over the old one.

After successful migration of my old iMac to the new one, my user on the new iMac has two home directories

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