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One of the accounts on my Mac has been plagued with problems ever since the upgrade to Snow Leopard. Safari crashes when attaching photos along with other apps crashing as well.
I just purchased one of the new iMacs (which is really sweet BTW) and used the migration assistant to move all accounts. It would seem that the "currupted" account followed and still has issues with crashing apps (none of the other accounts have this problem so its not system wide).
What I want to do is create a new admin account and manually move all of my data. What would be the best way to accomplish this? Hopefully whatever is causing the crashing issue won't follow.
Thanks for the help.

you can manually copy only the data you need to the new account. use this post as a guide on what to copy
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6185507
when you copy stuff do it via a location that both accounts have read access to, say, /Users/Shared. log into the old account and copy what you need to /Users/shared. then log out log into the new account and copy those things back to the new home directory. copying rather than moving files will ensure that you won't have permissions issues later.

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