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Replacing corrupted admin user profile
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1945004" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Be very, very careful. While you use names for accounts, internally the system identifies users by number, a number which is assigned to the account when it is created. So, for example, if you create an account for "Alice" it may be assigned user number 501, then a new account for "Bob" will be account 502. But if you now decide to change the "Alice" account to be "Bob" instead, the system retains the 501 number and the new "Bob" won't be able to access any of the original "Bob" files because the security of the system goes by user number. All of which can lead to HUGE issues if you end up with the only Admin account not being able to access anything it needs to actually manage the system. The only recovery from that mess would be a complete reinstallation and recreation of the system fresh, which means that you would then have to restore everything from a backup. (You do have backups, right?)</p><p></p><p>I agree with [USER=416417]@Jimmysb[/USER], let's get One Drive sorted out. It's running fine for me on Sonoma 14.6.1.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1945004, member: 396914"] Be very, very careful. While you use names for accounts, internally the system identifies users by number, a number which is assigned to the account when it is created. So, for example, if you create an account for "Alice" it may be assigned user number 501, then a new account for "Bob" will be account 502. But if you now decide to change the "Alice" account to be "Bob" instead, the system retains the 501 number and the new "Bob" won't be able to access any of the original "Bob" files because the security of the system goes by user number. All of which can lead to HUGE issues if you end up with the only Admin account not being able to access anything it needs to actually manage the system. The only recovery from that mess would be a complete reinstallation and recreation of the system fresh, which means that you would then have to restore everything from a backup. (You do have backups, right?) I agree with [USER=416417]@Jimmysb[/USER], let's get One Drive sorted out. It's running fine for me on Sonoma 14.6.1. [/QUOTE]
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