I am in the process of upgrading my Mac Pro from Snow Leopard to Mavericks. I will do this by performing a clean install on a new drive and then manually moving over all important data (documents, pictures, iTunes data, Mail data, certain preferences and application support files, etc.).
What I am wondering is whether I should set up the admin user account (I only use one account) on the new Mavericks system with the exact same name and password as on the old system. The idea behind this is that
A: I won't get confused and
B: This might prevent permission issues when copying over data from the old system, since both users are identical (sort of).
But maybe I am wrong and this will actually create potential for trouble. What is the consensus on this?
What I am wondering is whether I should set up the admin user account (I only use one account) on the new Mavericks system with the exact same name and password as on the old system. The idea behind this is that
A: I won't get confused and
B: This might prevent permission issues when copying over data from the old system, since both users are identical (sort of).
But maybe I am wrong and this will actually create potential for trouble. What is the consensus on this?
appears), choose terminal from the utilities menu in the menu bar, type resetpassword in the terminal window , choose the user account you just created and copied the files to from the dropdown and press the reset home-folder permissions and ACL's button in the bottom of the window. That should fix any permission-related issues to anything in the home folder. You can then reboot your mac from the menu bar as you would do normally.
