Move Files between accounts?

Hi --
I recently set up this computer with lots of customization on the admin account. Because of a mail problem & security issues, I'd like to eventually have it set up so that admin is used only for admin duties, with another user ("Donna") for all my daily business. (I'm the only human using the computer.) I've been told that I can set up the new user more quickly by moving the admin preferences files to the appropriate place for the Donna files.
Well, I just added the user Donna (with admin priveleges) but I'm unable to move the files. When I'm logged in as admin, it won't let me touch the Donna files & when I'm logged in as Donna I can't get to the admin files. What am I missing?
Thanks,
Donna

Is your email account an IMAP or POP account? If the former then the error message you received is related to creating a mailbox on the IMAP server.
When you resolve a problem by creating a new user account, then it means that the existing problem is constrained to the old user account, i.e., it's in the Home folder. Usually that means a problem with preference files, user cache files, third-party items such as preference panes or contextual menu items.
Archive and Install with preservation of users won't fix the problem because it simply imports the existing user account to the new system. Since the problem is in the user account it is not fixed by an Archive and Install.
Creating a new user and transferring everything over risks importing the problem as well. Because you think the problem is restricted to Mail, then perhaps the thing to try is deleting your current email account in Mail and then re-configuring a new account in Mail. If you use IMAP this should not cause any of your mail to be lost unless you download it to your computer. In this case archive your existing mailboxes and move the archive out of the current /Home/Library/Mail/ folder so it will not be deleted when you remove the account from Mail.

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