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Apple Computing Products:
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no desktop icons and finder doesnt seem to work...please help
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1615728"><p>OH, and thanks, Craig, for jumping in so quick. I thought we might either mv or cp from his old account to the new, as you suggested. We could "swing" them through an external drive formatted for FAT32 to get rid of permissions, or just get them over and sudo chmod them to the new. Either way should work, one being slightly longer than the other but slightly safer as you don't erase the external until you KNOW the files are safely moved. You are the wizard at terminal, so I'll sit and watch the master work...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1615728"] OH, and thanks, Craig, for jumping in so quick. I thought we might either mv or cp from his old account to the new, as you suggested. We could "swing" them through an external drive formatted for FAT32 to get rid of permissions, or just get them over and sudo chmod them to the new. Either way should work, one being slightly longer than the other but slightly safer as you don't erase the external until you KNOW the files are safely moved. You are the wizard at terminal, so I'll sit and watch the master work... [/QUOTE]
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