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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1798279" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Chris, I cannot seem to make out what the problem really is that is troubling you. I don't have to enter any password to do any of what you have said you want to do. I suspect that you got into trouble in the migration from your MBP to the iMac. I would further guess that you got the iMac, fired it up, created a user name and only then moved your files from the MBP backup. What happens when you do that is your NEW account doesn't have permissions on the files on the OLD account, even if the user name as displayed is the same. Inside the security kernel of the OS, it knows the two are different. Hence, permission issues.</p><p></p><p>If that is what you did, the best solution is to start all over. If you still have the original TM backup, then completely reinstall HS on the iMac as if it were new and at the FIRST offer to migrate from another machine (which comes before the offer to create an account) tell it to do so and pick the TM backup. It will then create the exact same account on your iMac as was on the MBP and migrate the files as they were on the backup. The permissions will then be all correct and ready to go. If you don't have that original TM backup, then I don't know a quick fix for the problem except maybe to create a new account on the iMac and then use the Shared folders to move the files from where they are now to the new account. Sharing is supposed to fix the permissions so that the new shared user can read and write the files, which is what you want. None of those seem to be your 1, 2, or 3 solutions, but I don't understand what you mean by them anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1798279, member: 396914"] Chris, I cannot seem to make out what the problem really is that is troubling you. I don't have to enter any password to do any of what you have said you want to do. I suspect that you got into trouble in the migration from your MBP to the iMac. I would further guess that you got the iMac, fired it up, created a user name and only then moved your files from the MBP backup. What happens when you do that is your NEW account doesn't have permissions on the files on the OLD account, even if the user name as displayed is the same. Inside the security kernel of the OS, it knows the two are different. Hence, permission issues. If that is what you did, the best solution is to start all over. If you still have the original TM backup, then completely reinstall HS on the iMac as if it were new and at the FIRST offer to migrate from another machine (which comes before the offer to create an account) tell it to do so and pick the TM backup. It will then create the exact same account on your iMac as was on the MBP and migrate the files as they were on the backup. The permissions will then be all correct and ready to go. If you don't have that original TM backup, then I don't know a quick fix for the problem except maybe to create a new account on the iMac and then use the Shared folders to move the files from where they are now to the new account. Sharing is supposed to fix the permissions so that the new shared user can read and write the files, which is what you want. None of those seem to be your 1, 2, or 3 solutions, but I don't understand what you mean by them anyway. [/QUOTE]
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