Convert a Mobile (PHD) account to a local one...

Question

I currently retired my Snow Leopard Server in a small home office.  There are currently three client computers.  On each of them, the user accounts are all mobile or PHD.  I would like to simply convert them to become the local one on each user's respective computer.  Is there an easy way to do this?

Answer 1

Try this.
Delete user from local machine with the option of (do not delete user home folder).
Rename user home folder to original home folder name in the terminal. (You will see the folder but it will be called olduseraccount (Deleted) and you can not change the name in finder.
In terminal change the directory to the user folder cd /Users
sudo mv oldaccountname\ \(Deleted\) oldaccountname
Create new user with original short name, you will see an option to use the existing home folder. Click use and you can then log out of the local admin and then log into the account.
You may have to log out and back in if you do not at first have the ability to make a new folder to the desktop.