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Change User names on new mac?

I want to 'migrate" from a Catalina MB Pro to a new iMac. The only thing I want to change is the user names, ( e.g. Robert change to Robert22) but keeping the contents of the old user to the new user. So the Robert22 user folder would be identical to Robert. There are 2 different users that I want to change, the second account being a standard account and Robert22 the main admin account.

I am not sure that migration assistant would do this.

What's the easiest way to do this?

Thanks

iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on Dec 9, 2019 7:41 PM

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Barney-15E

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Posted on Dec 9, 2019 8:14 PM

Migration Assistant won't do that.

You could change the name after, following this guidance: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201548

Make sure you use another admin account to change the name and home folder name of that account. If you change it while logged into it, you will break the account.

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