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no desktop icons and finder doesnt seem to work...please help
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<blockquote data-quote="cradom" data-source="post: 1615970" data-attributes="member: 305283"><p>Now we're going to back out of the bad account and back into /Users.</p><p><strong>cd ..</strong></p><p>If you type ls you should see the names of Home folders here. (That's a L and an S, lowercase)</p><p>Now we're going to try and copy. Type:</p><p><strong>sudo cp -R sammsousa /Volumes/'TOSHIBA EXT'/sammsousa</strong></p><p>This will copy the entire sammsousa folder with everything in it to the external drive, assuming there's enough space.</p><p>The -R switch means it will continue to copy even if there are errors. So after it's finished (it'll take a WHILE), go into the external in Finder and check things. Make sure all is there as far as you know.</p><p>You should have all your folders in there including Documents, Music, Movies Etc., Plus everything that was loose in your Home folder for that account.</p><p>Note, This probably will not copy invisible files.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cradom, post: 1615970, member: 305283"] Now we're going to back out of the bad account and back into /Users. [B]cd ..[/B] If you type ls you should see the names of Home folders here. (That's a L and an S, lowercase) Now we're going to try and copy. Type: [B]sudo cp -R sammsousa /Volumes/'TOSHIBA EXT'/sammsousa[/B] This will copy the entire sammsousa folder with everything in it to the external drive, assuming there's enough space. The -R switch means it will continue to copy even if there are errors. So after it's finished (it'll take a WHILE), go into the external in Finder and check things. Make sure all is there as far as you know. You should have all your folders in there including Documents, Music, Movies Etc., Plus everything that was loose in your Home folder for that account. Note, This probably will not copy invisible files. [/QUOTE]
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