Merging User Accounts

Move the contents of any two of those accounts into /Users/Shared/ and then to the third account, or drag their home folders to the third account's desktop.

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Niel,

I have the same question...I'm not sure how to do that--can you be more detailed?

Thanks so much,

Stephanie

Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu and enter /Users/ as the path. From there, drag items as desired. If you're moving them to the Shared folder, do this when logged in with the account that contains the files. If you're moving them straight to the desktop, log in as the account you want the files in.

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Thanks Niel I'll give that a try!

Hi Niel,

I have spent all the time to move everything into the shared folder and I am trying to access my old iphoto pics and the folder is saying that I don't have permission. Is there something I have done wrong? Sorry I'm not getting this.

Move it and the other data you're trying to move to a location inside your home folder, open the AppleScript Editor in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder, and run the following script:

set theUID to (do shell script "echo $UID")

do shell script "chown -R " & theUID & " " & quoted form of POSIX path of (path to home folder) with administrator privileges

do shell script "chmod -R u+rwX ~"

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I'm so sorry, I got myself into the AppleScriptEditor and then it lost me....this is a bit above me

I'm not sure exactly which parts I'm supposed to type (I assume the words in the "") but I do not know what the UID is....is it the number that it is now? (501)

You're supposed to copy and paste the three lines without editing them in any way.

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I recommend you read Pondini's guide on the subject. Note that you need to be careful not to overwrite files with the same name, iPhotos and iTune libraries in particular. Give them a suffix to their names to differentiate them.

iPhoto Library Manager has a facility to merge libraries. I don't know about iTunes.

http://pondini.org/OSX/Transfer.html

http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/

putnik,

I was reading that file earlier but for some reason I must have missed a step because all the files have a red circle with a minus sign telling me I don't have permission.

More on the subject from Pondini... At least you will know the problem, if not the solution. It's all about Migration Assistant making new accounts with different User Numbers.

http://pondini.org/OSX/MigrationProblems.html

See Starting Over on Mountain Lion or Lion item 4. But before going further, I would make sure to backup your original data on external disks, so you can get back to square one if necessary.

I think I have fixed my photo problem...last question (hopefully) my new computer now seems to be "full". Don't know how a 1T computer can be full when the old one still has 554 GB free....is it counting everything twice for both users? I'm not ready to delete one of the users but I certainly can't have it be full!

Delete the duplicate copies of the data you moved; you only need to keep the one that's currently in your home folder.

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That's the weird thing...there does not seem to be duplicates and when looking at the summary of my storage the largest chunk is taken up by "other" any idea what that could be? It is not the case in the older computer

I went to "Go to Folders" and typed /Volumes and the only thing it shows is a HD and it has the little arrow on the bottom left and shows the kind to be "Alias" Do I need to delete this?