Going from 2 users to 1

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  1. mrjosh, Oct 18, 2009

    mrjosh macrumors regular

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    Hi all,

    My wife and I decided that multiple accounts were a pain for various reasons. So, I was going to do a fresh install of SL, and just have one user.

    I'm thinking that I cannot do a time-machine backup since it will maintain the current file/permissions structure. Should I just copy my files over to an external hard drive (exporting both of our bookmarks and my mail files) and drag them back? I'll be doing a clean install of SL so I will be re-installing all applications (I don't have many applications).

    Anyone see any issues with this? It seems simple, but I'm worried that I am overlooking something.
     
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  2. BlueRevolution, Oct 18, 2009

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    Why reinstall? I'd just copy the files over to one account and delete the other. Permissions/ownership issues are easy to correct.
     
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  3. msevild, Oct 18, 2009

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    I think you could just delete the other user account and when it prompts how you want to remove it I would just let it leave the info where it is, and then copy that data to the one user account. That should change the permissions to the new user since it will want to copy the files instead of just moving them.
     
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  4. Consultant, Oct 18, 2009

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    Enable: OS X fast user switching
     
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  5. mrjosh, Oct 19, 2009

    mrjosh thread starter macrumors regular

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    Many thanks!
     
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