Rebuilding user account

Is this a good article to follow?

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57437548-263/how-to-rebuild-a-user-account- in-os-x/

Anyways I notice then when I boot-up into my account its about twice as slow as logging into my admin account for the first time. Granted the admin account has nothing loaded into it so this may be a reason. But other symptoms are that iMessages no longer works nor syncs with my iPhone and Apple tech support has hinted at my user account being the culprit, especially since it works just fine in the admin account. If I were to create a new user account I want all my data, settings, and apps intact. How would I do this?

MacBook, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)

Posted on Jun 1, 2013 11:00 AM

18 replies

jwolf6589 Author

Level 1

13 points

Jun 4, 2013 1:10 PM in response to Linc Davis

I backup my machine all the time. But my question is this. Will I be able to work while Iam running this command? I am in the middle of doing lots of forms on the web and I have much to get done.

You are right about the web. Someone on Macrumurs gave me left field advice and boasted of how ot worked for him and all the others that took his advice. I tried it and it failed and I lost some apps because of it. Yes I coud use Time Machine to get them back, but one cant just copy a app as there are sytem files and other stuff that a app brings along.

Linc Davis

Level 10

209,739 points

Jun 4, 2013 1:19 PM in response to jwolf6589

The command should take no more than a few minutes to run, and it shouldn't interrupt your work, even if it takes longer than that. Hypothetically, if something were to go wrong and you lost data, it might take hours to get back to where you are now. To reiterate, I promise nothing, expecially not that it will solve your problem, and if you have doubts, you shouldn't do it.

jwolf6589 Author

Level 1

13 points

Jun 4, 2013 8:59 PM in response to Linc Davis

In that event do you know exactly what is causing my iMessages issue? I have deleted pref and cache files, re-installed ML, booted into safe mode and nothign works. However AIM, and Yahoo chat work just fine with Messages, its just iMessages that has the issue and I have no idea why.

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Rebuilding user account