jwolf6589
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Q: 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

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  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Jun 4, 2013 1:02 PM in response to jwolf6589
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    Jun 4, 2013 1:02 PM in response to jwolf6589

    The evidence is that you can search this site for at least a few dozen other threads in which I've suggested the same command, or a similar one, with no reports of harm done. I've answered tens of thousands of questions on this site. My answers aren't always right, but I don't recall that anyone ever claimed to have been harmed by one.

     

    The key phrase is back up all data. If you have good backups, you have nothing to worry about worse than a nuisance. If you don't have good backups, you're in constant danger of losing all your data, whether you take my advice or not.

     

    But I agree with you: you should not run the command if you don't trust it. You shouldn't take any advice you don't trust. A lot of really bad advice is handed out here all the time.

     

    I merely made a suggestion. I'm not trying to sell you on it.

  • by jwolf6589,

    jwolf6589 jwolf6589 Jun 4, 2013 1:10 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    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.

  • by Linc Davis,

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

  • by jwolf6589,

    jwolf6589 jwolf6589 Jun 4, 2013 8:59 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    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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