At 10:44 AM -0700 1/13/11, Macs R We wrote:
On Jan 13, 2011, at 10:26 AM, Brian White - WebHostingSolutions.com wrote:
IAfter the migration completed I realized that I ended up with 2
admin users instead of 1 (merged) admin user. Of course I can't
access my migrated data and apps unless I log out of the "new" Mac
admin user and then log in as the admin user from the old Mac (that
user's admin privileges apparently transferred over).
I can't count the number of clients I've had who called me with this
problem. BY the time they call me, they've already set up a new
user account on the new machine -- often with exactly the same name,
making it even rougher -- and want to know how to get out of it.
Despite the "ka-ching!$" nature of these incidents, they annoy my
sense of good engineering.
I wish the initial screen you see when setting up a new Mac that
asks you if you have any data to transfer from an old Mac contained
a warning like, "DO IT NOW, or explore Permissions Hell when you do
it later!!"
I have not yet transferred to the new Mac for my day to day work,
so if necessary I could erase the drive and start from scratch,
although it would be great to avoid that. Either way though,
because I'm still using the old Mac for a few tasks until I can
transition 100% to the new one, I'll eventually have to transfer
some files over manually (I'm trying to keep that in mind to
hopefully avoid permissions issues when I have to move those files).
On an Apple support discussion regarding this topic, I found this comment:
"Or, if the new account has nothing of interest to you on it yet,
just make sure the old account already transferred over is an admin
one, log into it, and delete the new account."
That almost seems too simple (therefore an attractive option), and
I assume there must be a few more recommended or necessary steps in
that process that are being overlooked or unstated.
No. If you haven't created anything on the new machine yet that you
would regret abandoning, do this.
BUT, if I did do that, are there some bad consequences that I'll
eventually come across (i.e. permissions issues)?
There's a really, really minor issue: in all probability, the old
user was "number 501," and the new user will be "number 502." To a
well-written application this should make absolutely zero
difference. But I have heard that there are a rare couple of
porkers out there who trip over this, and sorry, I don't recall who
they are. None of them are Apple products, and none of them are
"must-have" third-party apps.
Now that I think about it, if I did delete the "new" admin account
that was created, would I simply be able to open iTunes, iPhoto,
etc... while logged in as the "old" migrated user and import my
music and photos into the new versions of these apps that came
pre-installed?
Well, wrong question. If you log in as the old (migrated) user, you
won't have to import anything, because presumably all your photos
and tunes have ALREADY been populated there for you.
What about everything associated with my iPhone syncing? I'm sure
I could go on with all the possible questions... sigh.
All syncing cares about is what your user ID is and what your store
account is. That is, modulo the raft of problems syncing has every
day, all on its own, which is going to be entirely independent of
this.
--
Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support
in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas.
http://macsrwe.com
Thanks for the advice. I deleted the admin account that was created
on the new Mac Pro and have started using it while logged in as the
admin account that was copied over from the old Mac Pro. So far so
good (just one or two very minor oddities), but I haven't tested
everything yet, and it'll take me at least a few more days or so to
get to the point where I'm working on it full time in replace of the
old Mac.
One side note for any old timers out there still using Eudora. If you
install Rosetta with Snow Leopard, Eudora still works just fine.
Brian White
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