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david10203

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Sep 4, 2010
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Hi everyone,

I have a MB that runs 10.5. When it was given to me, the previous owner had a random name in his home folder so I tried to change it from the root account. I ended up deleting the original user account and with a copy of my home folder in the root user. I tried to create a new user account and copy the files from the old account into the new account's home folder, but when I use the user account (not the root account) It says I don't have privileges to look at the files, even though they are in the right folder.

Is there a way to create a new account and somehow import everything from the home folder? Including all the settings from the old account?

Sorry for my bad English.

Thanks.
 
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