Excperiences when changing main admin account

I as usual when buying a new Mac, found after 2,5 years, that my iMac should benefit
from changing my main admin account to a new one. And then I had the possibility of
rethinking all things that I had installed slightly unsmart.
So I now have two main accounts, the new one to use all the time, and the old one,
that maybe could be needed for some reason.
I tried to migrate as much as possible by copying all music, mail and other stuff,
and then I will delete the old versions when I am fairly shure that things work ok.
What I however have not figured out, is how I should do with all Documents and
Pictures. I felt like starting with an empty iPhoto, with more order in the new
database. And All slightly misnamed forestlike document folders will have to
stay that way for a while until I know how to extract a managable number of mostly
accessed things.
I also happened to Buy iPhoto Library Manager, which is great if I want to
switch back to the old setup.
So far it feels good, also when I discovered that Mission Control is great.
Especially with the shortcuts ^-arrows left and right.
I placed every main App on its own screen, and was a bit bewildered that
the background seems to get put just one one screen, if you change it.
If you have read this far, and is a Unix guru, what rights should be smart
to put on the old Documents and Pictures and Movies folders, and the
home directory?
I think I mainly will need just read access to files, and with Lion, you
can put the new copy of changed files in the new home folder.
Thats, all for now. And thanks Apple for the 90 days support on Lion!!
They told me how to do the above things, and I wanted to spread the
word of how I did my migration.
Good Luck!
/Peter K, Sweden

You could either create a new user, or change the existing one with the instructions on this page
If the unwanted user account has no content you want to save, just create a new one.

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