Transfer documents, photos, films, music on the same laptop from one session to another.

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Transfer documents, photos, films, music on the same laptop from one session to another.

I have a Mac Book Pro OSX El Capitan.

I transferred the whole content of my administrator session of my iMac to my Mac Book Pro.

I know how to create a session or delete it but I can't find how to transfer the files from one session to another to keep only one.

Maybe there is no way and I have to do this manually with a USB Key.

If anybody can help me with this I would be grateful.

Sorry about my english not too good. I am french and i is the first time I post a message!

Thanks

iPhoto '08, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Mar 2, 2016 9:38 PM

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Answer 1

brenden dv

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Mar 4, 2016 9:36 AM in response to Appia

Hi Appia,

Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities! I'm sorry to hear that you are having these issues with your iMac and your MacBook Pro. I'm a bit unclear on the exact issue you are describing, but if you are talking about migrating your user accounts and/or data from a previous Mac to a new Mac, you may find the information and steps outlined in the following articles helpful:

Move your content to a new Mac - Apple Support

OS X: Manually migrating data from another Mac - Apple Support

Regards

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Appia Author

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Mar 7, 2016 6:24 AM in response to brenden dv

Thanks for your answer.

In fact, I know how to migrate from a previous Mac to a new Mac, what I do not know is how to transfer all the data of one user account to another account on the same MacBook Pro? I have actually 2 accounts : 1 a created on my Mac Book pro and after I migrated my account from my old iMac. Results I have 2 accounts with different data and I just want all the data to be on the same user account on my Macbook pro.

Regards

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vicding

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Mar 7, 2016 8:11 PM in response to Appia

Hi Appia,

I suppose you created on your new mac the account with same username and password as on the iMac, then run the migration tool. You can try the following steps.

make sure you have a backup before proceed

1) created an admin account with different name, let's say myadmin, on your new mac.

2) From new mac, delete the user you already created (make sure you have a backup or the data is still on old iMac )

3) run migration tool, let it copy data from your iMac to your new mac

This will copy the existing account on your iMac as well as the data under that account. The UUID of the account will also be preserved. So you'll have exactly the same account on both machines.

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