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Switching over to iMac -file problems
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1807699" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Ok, the problem is that you used Migration Assistant to move the files AFTER you had created an account for you. The better way to have done it would have been to reinstall the OS completely, erasing and reformatting the drive and then when it booted for the first time use Migration Assistant to move the files then. What would have happened is that the files would have been moved, your account details also moved over and an account for you just as it was on the old MBP would have been set up with all the permissions you needed. What you did was to create a new account (even if it has the same login name, it has a unique account identifier for the operating system), then use Migration Assistant to move the files, which presumably ended up in a folder that was NOT in your account, and which now has its own unique identifier associated with it. Resetting passwords won't fix it, it has more to do with the internal unique identifiers and the way security on *nix based systems works. </p><p></p><p>So, how to fix it. One way is to move the files from the place that Migration Assistant put them to a shared space. In Finder, if you go to the MacintoshHD drive, then Users, there should be a user named Shared. That user can be the "swing" space to move the files from where they currently are to where you can use them. Copy all the files and folders you want to that shared user, then copy them again from that shared user to your new account on the iMac. That process should reset the permissions on the files to where you can now open them successfully. Another way to get rid of the permission issue is to copy the files/folders to an external drive not formatted for Mac, say a drive formatted for Windows, like XFAT, where permissions data is "lost" and then copy them back to the drive into your account. That double copy should wipe out any permissions on the originals because XFAT does not support permissions. </p><p></p><p>As for the problem with having 10 or 12 duplicates, I bet you are opening the original file each time, getting the message about the permission issue and duplicating it right then. Then you save the file with the new data to the duplicated file and the original is unchanged. What you should be doing is to make the duplicate so that it has your account information associated, then delete the original and only open the duplicate from then on. That way you don't have dupes of dupes and the permissions get sorted out properly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1807699, member: 396914"] Ok, the problem is that you used Migration Assistant to move the files AFTER you had created an account for you. The better way to have done it would have been to reinstall the OS completely, erasing and reformatting the drive and then when it booted for the first time use Migration Assistant to move the files then. What would have happened is that the files would have been moved, your account details also moved over and an account for you just as it was on the old MBP would have been set up with all the permissions you needed. What you did was to create a new account (even if it has the same login name, it has a unique account identifier for the operating system), then use Migration Assistant to move the files, which presumably ended up in a folder that was NOT in your account, and which now has its own unique identifier associated with it. Resetting passwords won't fix it, it has more to do with the internal unique identifiers and the way security on *nix based systems works. So, how to fix it. One way is to move the files from the place that Migration Assistant put them to a shared space. In Finder, if you go to the MacintoshHD drive, then Users, there should be a user named Shared. That user can be the "swing" space to move the files from where they currently are to where you can use them. Copy all the files and folders you want to that shared user, then copy them again from that shared user to your new account on the iMac. That process should reset the permissions on the files to where you can now open them successfully. Another way to get rid of the permission issue is to copy the files/folders to an external drive not formatted for Mac, say a drive formatted for Windows, like XFAT, where permissions data is "lost" and then copy them back to the drive into your account. That double copy should wipe out any permissions on the originals because XFAT does not support permissions. As for the problem with having 10 or 12 duplicates, I bet you are opening the original file each time, getting the message about the permission issue and duplicating it right then. Then you save the file with the new data to the duplicated file and the original is unchanged. What you should be doing is to make the duplicate so that it has your account information associated, then delete the original and only open the duplicate from then on. That way you don't have dupes of dupes and the permissions get sorted out properly. [/QUOTE]
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