Migration assistant won't migrate admin account

On my G5 I created the admin account (which is the account I usually use) with the same name, short name and password as the admin account on my older machine.
When I use migration assiatant, it brings up a "Duplicate Account Found" dialogue box which offers to rename the account I am transferring (which I don't want to do as the name is correct on both machines) and do not transfer the user account (which I certainly don't want as transferring the admin account is the whole point).
The option to replace the existing account with the one I am transfering (which might be the one I want) is greyed out.
What am I supposed to do? Don't Apple test the most obvious situation?
Beige G3 Mac OS X (10.3.5)

I found that I needed to create another temporary admin account and run the migration assistant from that account. Then the option to replace the original admin account was no longer greyed out.
I suppose one could enable root and log in as root as well to do this.

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I have been trying to move everything from my old Mac to the new Mac mini.
By Time Machine and two Migration Assistant tries until the Mail got ok.
I would like to get all feedback I can get on the subject:
First of all, I am unsure myself about especially the Unix and underlying things. Like Admin rights.
I have right now about 5 accounts, One old Admin, which I intend to keep. I moved things I wanted to have to a new (user) account, and thereby I left "a segmentation/layer/period of files and things" there. So it's left for two reasons. And One account that I made just to have a clean iPhoto and account for a relatives project. And then also I made a new account during the mini install (used when migrating the first) time, the id of which I'd really like keep as main user account. But I seem to have gotten things and Mail especially, working on a fifth account, Admin right now, which got there when I migrated the second time.
So now I plan to use the fifth Account as main (user) account. But I'm a bit unsure what rights and things that have to be fixed for things to work even though I remove the Admin rights.
And I really would like to keep the fourth account as main Admin account, it has the id I'd like to keep.(I think I read somewhere that you cannot change the id:s.) I'm not sure how to clean out whatever excess files that this account may have.
From the old user account I also need to move the App and settiings files to the main user account, although I hope that the second migration mixed a lot.
So I think I have a good plan for all accounts.
I had trouble getting the Mail migrated ok. It did not work ok to move all mail between accounts, so I skipped this. I also did once a Mail "Backup" on Mail - is this how I could have moved the mails between accounts?
Another things is iTunes. It now seems ok on my user account, although the Playing Lists (also "Bought") seems to have got lost. ?!
I looked at the size of User files after the migrations to the two different user (Admin for the moment) accounts, they seem to maybe be identical.
I have to go through all Apps to check that my user account works, especially when I turn off the Admin rights.
I am quite unsure if especially all settings are ok.
I think the Moble Applications for my iPad gor moved ok. I have to dowload some App to to see if that works.
One major task is how to fix all file system rights, since I now realise that I will switch both my Admin and the User account.
I have my user files on an external disk, where it is located in Users/account/* I am a bit unsure how to set those rights.
Finally, the things I missed, whas that I turned off Time Machine backup during the first Migration, but I missed the second time so I got a strange Time Machine backup made in the middle of things. I am unsure if I in any safe way could get rid of this backup. Right now Time Machine is turned off, until I am satisfied with things.
I also now realize that:
The Install and Migration was a bit troublesome as it got done.
I suspect that I should have run Migration Assistant booted from a USB stick Mountain Lion that I have, or from a temporary partition or something. So that I did not have to so much fixing afterwards. (I mayby never wanted extra accounts, and I am not sure how things will work out now.)
And finally, now, I would appreciate ideas and pointers to Forum postings about these matters. I am very thankful for what really good stuff I found after a while, Migrating was not as easy as it seemed to be! (Also, you should not do things like this if your not concentrated... :-( ).
Thanks!
/groundliner
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Thanks!
As I have now, I will do as I planned. But the second Migration I did was to Migrate a second time. From Restored OS. But I had three accounts from before, som that still was a problem.
The Setup Guide was great, at least I now know how to fix the moving and rights setting.
I am unsure if also my unneccessary Time Backups still would have to removed, so I would not give it anoter try.
I am grateful for all ideas!
/groundliner

Migration assistant won't transfer user account

Hi
Just used migration assistant to transfer data from a Tiger iMac to a leopard iMac, and while all the files and apps came across it did not copy the user account. I then connected to the host computer via target disk mode and see the user account is not accessible, but it is when connecting normally over a network.
I plan to wipe the new imac and start again, but anyone any ideas how to make the user account visible over firewire and TDM?
Thanks

jeevescat wrote:
Thanks for your reply.
The migration assistant behaved as usual, I've used it countless times, it came up with the list of accounts, in this instant there was only the one, and all the boxes were ticked to transfer all apps, files etc and all data from this account.
At the end of the transfer the computer restarted, but instead of going straight to the desktop, it ran through the account creation procedure.
All data and apps outside of the user folder have been copied but nothing in the user folder. Thats when I noticed that connecting to the old imac in TDM does not allow access to the data in the user folder,
please clarify that. do you mean that you don't have permissions to open that folder? or do you mean something else?
their is only one account which it is set to automatically log into. There are no passwords or security, file vault is not on and all sharing is enabled, access is fine over a normal network connection.
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Open System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Options, press the padlock at the bottom left corner of the System Preferences window and choose the second user account next to "Automatic login". Your computer will always log in to this user account whenever you start up Mac OS X.
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So I just migrated (using the Assistant) my Admin account from my old Powerbook G4 to my MacBook Air (used) , but now it's disregarding its new Trackpad settings (such as scrolling and double finger tapping, etc.) It also won't let me find my Applications folder (I used Finder), whereas the Admin account can, but see back on my old laptop I this account was an Admin. I feel like there's something written that's telling it to behave like it did on the Powerbook. I don't know - me no professional, yo, that's why I'm here. NOTE: Before I migrated, I'd started using the Admin account on here; for example, I signed in with my appleid since I figured the accounts could be merged - guess not. A family member's been helping me, but I wanted feedback from the forum.
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I have a new Macbook pro with Lion 10.7.5. And I just got done transferring everything over from my old Macbook w/ 10.5.8
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Yes, when your sure and ready to do so.
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William Schmid wrote
Any applications that she had on the Powerbook - I can re-install them on the new computer
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