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Switching to a new mac from an old mac
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<blockquote data-quote="IWT" data-source="post: 1798096" data-attributes="member: 83420"><p>Good morning and welcome.</p><p></p><p>Let's make sure I've got this right. You have 2 year old Mac and brand new Mac. In the process of transferring data from old to knew, you created a User Name which is applied to your Home Folder and you want to change this?</p><p></p><p>Options:</p><p></p><p>1. A name is a name is a name - you could just keep it as it is.</p><p></p><p>2. You can change the username and Home Folder name to what you want by creating a new Admin User Account and following these instructions:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201548" target="_blank">https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201548</a></p><p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2016/12/02/change-user-home-folder-mac/" target="_blank">http://osxdaily.com/2016/12/02/change-user-home-folder-mac/</a></p><p></p><p>3. You could reformat your new Mac and basically restore it as if new and restart the process all over again.</p><p></p><p>BTW, are you restoring data to the new Mac from a Time Machine backup or cloning backup? And if so, are you doing this automatically or via Migration Assistant?</p><p></p><p>Ian</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IWT, post: 1798096, member: 83420"] Good morning and welcome. Let's make sure I've got this right. You have 2 year old Mac and brand new Mac. In the process of transferring data from old to knew, you created a User Name which is applied to your Home Folder and you want to change this? Options: 1. A name is a name is a name - you could just keep it as it is. 2. You can change the username and Home Folder name to what you want by creating a new Admin User Account and following these instructions: [url]https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201548[/url] [url]http://osxdaily.com/2016/12/02/change-user-home-folder-mac/[/url] 3. You could reformat your new Mac and basically restore it as if new and restart the process all over again. BTW, are you restoring data to the new Mac from a Time Machine backup or cloning backup? And if so, are you doing this automatically or via Migration Assistant? Ian [/QUOTE]
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