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Did migration Assistant twice and still can't find my files
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1532201"><p>will inevitably lead to this solution from chscag:</p><p> because when you run MA after setting up you account on the MBP, MA doesn't know where to put the files, so it stores them under a new user account, with the name being usually the same as the old Windows account, but it could be anything. Unfortunately, when it does that, it puts the permissions for those files with the owner of those files as that new account, so even when you find them you may not be able to open them for anything involving editing them unless you do the work of changing ownership of the files back to your current OSX account. If you search the forum you'll find several threads on this topic with some of them describing exactly how to do that once you find the files.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1532201"] will inevitably lead to this solution from chscag: because when you run MA after setting up you account on the MBP, MA doesn't know where to put the files, so it stores them under a new user account, with the name being usually the same as the old Windows account, but it could be anything. Unfortunately, when it does that, it puts the permissions for those files with the owner of those files as that new account, so even when you find them you may not be able to open them for anything involving editing them unless you do the work of changing ownership of the files back to your current OSX account. If you search the forum you'll find several threads on this topic with some of them describing exactly how to do that once you find the files. [/QUOTE]
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