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Hi, I've just acquired a friend's mac, having used a pc for years and am a bit confused....
I used it for about a week, still logged in under his name. Since I knew his password, I was able to go into 'system preferences' and 'accounts' and change both Name and Password to my own. Now however, when I log in with these, it hasn't simply changed the name of the account but created a new one ie all the personal desktop and internet settings are back to default. This in itself is not a problem, but now I can no longer access the original account with all the changes I had made and files I had on the desktop, since there is no option to do that on the log-in screen. I can find my account and my desktop settings under 'users' in the harddrive, so they're not gone, but it appears as a folder rather than a little house (i know, i sound so clueless!)
How can I log in as me and get all my stuff back?! Any nudges in the right direction much appreciated!
I'm now trying to back up some of my stuff on to my external harddrive and keep being told that it cannot be modified..isnt this kind of the point of harddrives?! Does anyone have any idea why this might be and whether it's related to the first issue? V grateful if someone could help - not how i imagined spending saturday night !!
I used it for about a week, still logged in under his name. Since I knew his password, I was able to go into 'system preferences' and 'accounts' and change both Name and Password to my own. Now however, when I log in with these, it hasn't simply changed the name of the account but created a new one ie all the personal desktop and internet settings are back to default. This in itself is not a problem, but now I can no longer access the original account with all the changes I had made and files I had on the desktop, since there is no option to do that on the log-in screen. I can find my account and my desktop settings under 'users' in the harddrive, so they're not gone, but it appears as a folder rather than a little house (i know, i sound so clueless!)
How can I log in as me and get all my stuff back?! Any nudges in the right direction much appreciated!
I'm now trying to back up some of my stuff on to my external harddrive and keep being told that it cannot be modified..isnt this kind of the point of harddrives?! Does anyone have any idea why this might be and whether it's related to the first issue? V grateful if someone could help - not how i imagined spending saturday night !!