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.

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)

How-To: Migrating to a new user account in OS X

17" 2.2GHz i7 Quad-Core MacBook Pro  8G RAM  750G + 240G OCZ Vertex 3 SSD Boot HD 

hi,

i guess it is pretty smart to use all that pro code.

still, apple has provided a much simpler way: the migration assistant in your utilities folder. you can use it to migrate one user account to another. you can either do from your timemachine backup (which you should have somewhere anyway), or - if you do not have one - from a backup you have made using special software (eg shareware superduper) on an external drive. piece of cake. ;-)