I saved my "users" folder to an external HD. I did erase and install on my imac. Now how do i get the accounts to open up on the fresh installation?

To move a home folder, create a new home folder, copy the contents of the old home folder into the new home folder, and then delete the old home folder. Take a look at this link, http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/UserMgmt_v10.6.pdf

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I know this a question that is probably better suited for the mac os x section, but I like the advice everyone gives in this forum and you are all fellow macbook users. Okay to my question the 60gig is just a little too small for my needs and there is a lot of pre-bundled progs on the macbook i dont use. I want to do an erase and install but I would like to be able to back up my user information (bookmarks, passkeys etc.).
Help will be greatly appreciated thanks,
EAH22

Assuming you have enough space on the drive (6-8 GBs free) and assuming the hard drive has been repaired and is verified OK, you can do an Archive and Install and select the option to preserve the user files and network settings. This way you do not have to erase the disk and all your user files will be moved to the new system installation.
Or you can simply delete the pre-bundled applications you don't want. This is a lot less extreme than erasing the hard drive and starting from scratch.

Unknown User Permissions - Erase and Install Backup Plan

Hi everyone,
I upgraded from Tiger and therefore have the unknown user permissions problems. I'd like to erase and install my system and am writing to verify the following:
If I copy my data (with the funny permissions) to a Powerbook in Firewire Disk Mode, reinstall Leopard on my new iMac, then copy the data back from the Powerbook in disk target mode, will the permissions be fixed?
Thank you, Tom Bertram.

Thomas,
If you are talking about the "unknown" group problem seen in the permissions portion of Get Info, be aware that Apple is in the process of putting out a Knowledge Base article to address this and it may be wise to be patient a little longer.
The user accounts inherited from Tiger belong to a "group" that has a missing piece of information -- a group name that Leopard wants. The installer should have dealt with this but it didn't. Anyway, a couple of simple Terminal commands can fix this for each such account. Once the Group description is proper, there will no longer be any need to change the group membership of your files.
Unfortunately the first couple tries Apple made of describing how to do this appear to be in error. See the following thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1280472&tstart=0
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1. Will my old saved email messages in Apple Mail carry over to Leopard?
2. What about my Office for Mac which I just installed on my MBP, will I have to install it again?
3. How would I keep my Safari bookmarks?
I know these might be really simple things for most users out there, but I am not a very technical person despite having used a mac for a couple of years!
Any replies (or suggestions for upgrading) would be greatly appreciated!!

Hi Niel:
You seem to be very knowledgeable on Mac: I´ve been using it fro quite a few years but upgrading to Leopard has been a nightmare: first install and archive did not work because it had problems creating a "unknown user",etc. I decided to Erase and Install and now _I´m getting a message that the Install disk is damaged_ (which is not really , because in the first installation it gave me the same message, and worked OK after repeating the operation). Would appreciate if you know something about this problem, and any other friend on the forum giving me some advise.
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Victor Manuel

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