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shawncothran

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Dec 27, 2013
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I want to migrate my user account from one internal drive to another within the same macbook pro. My wife and I used to have 2 laptops, not we have 1 shared and it is a pain to reboot and select the other hdd just to use my account.

I guess maybe I can just copy and paste the whole user folder? But I was planning on leaving my data on the 2nd drive and just having the account.

(maybe a similar but secondary question: what about my installed applications? can they also be copied over somehow?)
 

Fishrrman

macrumors Penryn
Feb 20, 2009
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Have you tried using Migration Assistant.

Use MA to copy -only- the one account, and nothing else.
 
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