How do I move all my files from one User Profile (account) into another? I needed to create a new account and want all of my files accessible in the new one.

that's awesome that there's a graphical way to do it, but is it really easier and faster than:

cp -r /Users/olderuser/ /Users/newusers/

chown -R newuser:staff /Users/Newusers/

really?

i guess i must be old school 🙂

anyway, glad you found solutions to your problems.

Just an FYI, your problem could have been with permissions, or possibly some preferences or cache files that were giving your problems. In the future it might be easier to into your username->Library-Preferences folder and delete, move or rename preference files for the applications that are giving you trouble. If Adobe follows Apple's convention they would be something like com.adobe.application_name.plist If the don't follow Apple's convention then it could be folders, or files that somehow contain Adobe or the specific application's name.

Hopefully you're new account will work for you, but if not consider the cleanup I've indicated above.

oh I see.

Here, the -r or -R are flags and not commands.

The way it normally works is:

If you are at a prompt. you start with a command then optional argument.

so, if i say to type: ls -la

you could simply type ls by itself, as it is the command and does not have to have argument.

if you do "man ls", you will see what type of argument that command ls can take.

so, if you want to see what the -R does, simply do a 'man chown' in the doc it will tell you what the -R means for that command. (-R here means recursive)