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Switching over to iMac -file problems
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1807802" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Is your own account an Admin account? Admins should be able to see all files on the system, including files not their own. In any case, click on the Duplicate option to make a copy of the file that you can open. The duplicate will have permissions for you to open the file for edit and saving. </p><p></p><p>Is it an option for you to just wipe out the iMac and start over using Migration Assistant properly? If you don't have a lot of stuff on it that is not on the old MBP, that may be the quickest way to solve this. If you can do that, make a backup of what you have now on the iMac, then boot holding down the R key to enter the recovery partition and format/reinstall the OS, then when it boots, it should offer MA, which you can take right then and not have this issue. You can restore from either the old MBP or the TM backups of that machine. Once done, MA will have created an account with the same name/password as on the MBP and your files will be in there, all ready for that account to use. Then you can go to the backup you made of the iMac before you started and restore what changed after you got the iMac. The only challenges should be some software that will be moved that may need to be re-registered. Adobe and Microsoft products are the prime offenders here as their anti-piracy practices are pretty stern.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1807802, member: 396914"] Is your own account an Admin account? Admins should be able to see all files on the system, including files not their own. In any case, click on the Duplicate option to make a copy of the file that you can open. The duplicate will have permissions for you to open the file for edit and saving. Is it an option for you to just wipe out the iMac and start over using Migration Assistant properly? If you don't have a lot of stuff on it that is not on the old MBP, that may be the quickest way to solve this. If you can do that, make a backup of what you have now on the iMac, then boot holding down the R key to enter the recovery partition and format/reinstall the OS, then when it boots, it should offer MA, which you can take right then and not have this issue. You can restore from either the old MBP or the TM backups of that machine. Once done, MA will have created an account with the same name/password as on the MBP and your files will be in there, all ready for that account to use. Then you can go to the backup you made of the iMac before you started and restore what changed after you got the iMac. The only challenges should be some software that will be moved that may need to be re-registered. Adobe and Microsoft products are the prime offenders here as their anti-piracy practices are pretty stern. [/QUOTE]
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