Question About User Accounts and Applications!

I just want to know how the user accounts work. I want to free up extra space on my macbook pro and want to know if the application install twice once into my account and once in the guest account?
Thanks
Darien

No, applications go in the Applications folder at the root of your drive, not in the user folder. User folders only store your data (documents, photos, music, settings files, etc).

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Hello!
I'm a developer and just started this iPhone app project so I'm not really experienced with all this cocoa/Mac/iPhone world yet.
The thing is: I'm having this crash on the app running on the simulator, but this ONLY happens with my main user account. Doesn't happen on the device, on another account on the same computer or my coworkers computers.
I haven't found what's causing this, so I'm thinking about deleting my account and recreating it.
Is deleting an user account like formatting it?
Is there anything that I could try before deleting it? Like restoring permissions or the OS with the dvd... These are things that I read about Mac Support.
Any ideas?

roam wrote:
Is deleting an user account like formatting it?
No, deleting it removes it. Like, put in the trash and then empty it.
Importantly you should create a new user account with Admin privileges and from that new account delete the older one. Doing it this way still leaves you with Admin control of your computer.
Before you delete an account... as to your particular problem, there are particular forums concerned with application development. Click on the link below for more specialized forums regarding iPhone app development and your coding error.
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=164
Yeah, I created another account with Admin privileges, I'm just reluctant to the idea of having to config everything again in the new account. I tried Stack Overflow and iPhoneDevSDK, will try the Apple's forum now.
Thanks mate.

Question about user accounts

Setting up new mini with 10.6 installed. This is my second Mac, current system is eMac with 10.3. All files/media I want to save are backed up on ext. HD.
This time I want to set up an Administrator Acct. and another User Acct. (without Admin. access) for routine use. Did not know enough to do that the first time.
But, I want access to all the old files without ownership/privileges problems.
As I understand it, I can make the user acct. names the same as the names on my acct. on the old system and there should not be any problem? I have a reason for wanting to not do this, but certainly can and probably will, if that will work.
To help me understand all this, is the "short name" the real account name/identifier? In other words, can I make the user name anything I want as long as the "short name" is the same?

The info you have given has thrown me for a loop. As I stated in my reply to Scott I am really having trouble understanding this whole account/file ownership issue, although I thought I had it figured out and was seeking verification.
Regarding your info about copying files from an external drive, how/why does "ignore ownership on this drive" work?
"ignore ownership" makes all files on the external read+write by any user so there are no issues with permissions.
Did a lot of research on several Mac help sites before posting here. A common problem seems to be someone wanting/needing to change account name(s) on a system they will continue to use. Common advice given is:
Create new account.
Copy/transfer files to new account.
Remove/delete old account.
How/why does that work without file ownership/permissions being a problem?
most files have read permissions by everybody when created so copying them from one account to another is not a problem. please read up on the basic permissions structure
http://www.perlfect.com/articles/chmod.shtml
I understand that the real UID is a numeric code. How does the system arrive at that code?
the very first user account created on any mac has UID 501 by default. the next one 502 and so on.
It seems to me if I use the same, exact, account name(s), file ownership would not be an issue.
that's completely wrong. same account name doesn't help in any way at all. same user ID is what's checked.
for example when you create a file on an external drive and then move that drive to another computer if you access it from an account with the same user ID by a different user name it will show you as the owner.

Question about user accounts in multi domain scom design

hello,
there is a root forest with 30 child domains. fully trusted. we want to have a MS in each of the child domains and RMS in the root. so each MS in child domains report to the RMS which holds the SQL as well. since we want to use a single account for all the
SQL and SCOM related tasks I would like to know what is the best method to achive this process?
I want to use a single (Domain User) account for all the SCOM and SQL related task in all of the child domains and management servers.
the design is scom 2007 r2.
any ideas?

is that enough? I am worriyng about this account not to have enough access on SQL or SDK and ...
dos this user needs to be local admin on all management server although the management servers are joined to another domains?
can you please clarify this.
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Repaired MacBook Pro - Question about User Account being copied

On Wednesday, my MBP was ready to be picked up at the Apple Store. They told me it was basically everything inside that caused my display to not function and it would have cost me over 1700 dollars without AppleCare, so that made me happy. They also said they heard weird noises coming from my hard drive so they gave me a new one as well. Some applications needed to be installed but I was told that all of my documents are on this machine. They copied over my User folder. I didn't really care that I lost my Windows partition but it would have been nice to know before they just deleted it..
Anyway, I got home and turned on my machine. It said I only had about 20 gigs left of storage. Wait a minute... This had to be wrong because thats the space I had on my previous computer WITH the Windows partition. After a little researching, I saw that in my Users folder there was another folder called "DELETED USERS." When I opened it, I saw my documents and music files. I thought it was where they put my old data from my other drive but it wasn't. There was another folder in "Users" with my name and data. It seems like they copied it twice or something. I was just wondering if it's okay to delete this data.

yes, it's quite ok to delete that folder. First make sure that everything was indeed copied to your main user folder and if it is, delete "Deleted Users".

Question about administrator account and access

I am logged on as administrator, but when I try to access certain programs or files I am refused to access as a limited user.
Can anyone help?
Jon

Hi there,
you can access such files or programs by doing a "right-click" on the file/shortcut and "left-click" on "Run as administrator..".
Then the application will be executed wirh maximum rights and full access.
Greets

Question about Itunes account and gift cards

My question is that if I log into my itunes account on a different computer than i usully use, can I access it later on my normal computer, or do I have to reedem it on the same computer that I originally put the gift card on? please help!

You can log into the store on any PC that has iTunes installed and see your balance.
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You only get one download. You can't re-download things to multiple PCs.

Deleting an older user account and migration assistant question

Hello,
So I'm out of the loop big time. I've had my current 17" iMac since 2006 (10.5.8) it's the white border one. Anywho I just got my new 27" i7 iMac and feel really stupid trying to migrate from the old computer to the new one. I couldn't figure it out so had to call Apple help.
First off I put the ethernet cable in the back of both machines thinking it was the Firewire and chose the Firewire option and kept wondering why it wouldn't work. Then it dawns on me I have the ethernet cable in. So I try to transfer that way and get stuck on the Install Mac OSX install disk and install the CD or DVD setup something or other. Well I stick the DVD in my old iMac and open the install disk and see nothing that says CD or DVD setup. I call the Apple line and realize that because my new iMac isn't hooked up to the internet I can't use the ethernet option (okay why I didn't realize that I don't know but it's been a long week and I haven't migrated a computer in a long time).
On top of all that the lady tells me the new iMac has a 800 Firewire and my old one only has a 400 Firewire (so that is why I couldn't get my Firewire 400 cable to work).
So she tells me it will take ages to set up wirelessly but I need to click no and not transfer data to the new iMac, then setup my internet then go back into migration assistant on both machines and click the network option. It is taking ages to do this.
I told her I was on the forums and that doing it this way would create a new user account and she said just to delete the old one once the new one is created. Is it that simple? My old user account is called Pink Tuley and new one is called Tuley. So once the migration is complete (think it's going to take hours on end, my old machine is 160GB with about 140GB of it full) do I just delete the older Pink Tuley account?
Yes, this is a long winded question I know.
Message was edited by: spiralgirl

elmac,
I'm currently migrating my old iMac to my new iMac via the internet wirelessly. I did what the Apple support told me to do since I don't want to go out and buy a new Firewire cable (I have a 400 one now and would have to get one that has a 400 and 800 on each end which I could have bought at the store had I known).
Instead I chose not to migrate and set up my iMac with the internet, and now I'm migrating via migration assistant opened up on both machines using using the network option. It's okay if it takes forever to do as I've waited this long (I had to wait 5 weeks for my Macbook Pro HR-AG to arrive).
My old user account is called Pink Tuley and I thought there would be mass confusion if I named the new user account the same name so I chose Tuley for this one. Once I'm all migrated do I just go into the user accounts on my new iMac and delete Pink Tuley?
Message was edited by: spiralgirl

Creating a new user account and transferring files from old account

I am now having more problems than I can handle with my Leopard installation...problems such as applications that refuse quit no matter what ~ even after attempting force quit them and/or attempting to "sudo kill -9 PID", and now that I am having problems with Adobe Lightroom not even being able to remain open on my user account for more than 10 seconds max before it crashes without provocation (yet runs fine on a troubleshooting account I created on the same machine), I would now like to create a new user account on my MacPro Leopard 10.5.6 and transfer my files from the previous (problematic) user account, but I've never done so in the past...
Can someone give me a basic rundown of how to go about doing this as a means of troubleshooting my current sickly user account (and if you could also please let me know which files I should avoid restoring to the newly created user account so that I don't screw that one up as well, I would appreciate it)
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated... Thanks!

While logged into the troubleshooting account (assuming that it's an admin account—if not create a new one and log into it), backup the bad account's folder, delete the bad account, selecting the save data option (which is stored in /Users/Deleted Users/ as a disk image), recreate the bad account using the same username/password combo, log out and back into the recreated original account. If the problem's solved, open the saved data dmg file in /Users/Deleted Users/, open the /Library/Preferences/ folder from the saved data, open the current /Users/restored account/Library/Preferences/ folder, and slowly copy plist files from the saved data folder to the current one that don't exist in it. Log out and back in to ensure there's no conflict and things still work correctly. Resolving conflicts or identifying corrupt plist files is a laborious process. Good luck.
See http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4703015 for more details on this process.

Cannot change anything in user account and family safety, even logging as an administrator account.

My 1st user account was an administrator account, 2nd user account was a standard account. 3rd user account was a guest account of window 8 single language, however i accidentally made a mistake by setting guest account from standard account to become an
administrator account. I also set down the 1st user account from administrator to standard account and after these stupid settings, the guest account becomes administrator account anyone can access in without any password, the 1st and 2nd accounts become standard
accounts! Before this mistake, the 1st user account was the main account of mine, 2nd and 3rd (guest account) were logged in very rarely.
The problem is when i logged in guest account as administrator, i cannot set the 1st or 2nd back to become another administrator account. Something has gone strange, it has been prevented me to set the others to be administrator and the guest back to standard
account. Being as an administrator account, the guest account was totally useless in changing settings. When i logged in with 1st and 2nd account, i also cannot change anything in the user account settings (change type of user account) and family safety, all
attempts to change the user account settings was useless such as i never tried. I also tried "refresh your computer without losing files" but not worked. Please provide me some advices!
I did not find the forum for win 8 single language, so i place my question here.

Thanks for your reply. I tried to go to safe mode of win 8 by holding the shift key while clicking "restart" on the login screen. (My login screen now shows 3 account users). Then i chose troubleshoot -> advanced options -> windows startup
settings-> i went to safe mode. The safe mode only showed a complete black screen with an only window: "Administrator: cmd.exe". I did as you said (typing NETPLWIZ) and the User accounts window appeared. I went to "properties" of each
user account and set 1st and 2nd accounts to Administrator but got the error: "This user cannot be added. Access is denied." and another error window: "Usert accounts: the group membership for ... could not be updated."
Yesterday, i went to elevated command prompt as an administrator and typed "net user administrator /active:yes" with hope that the built-in administrator would be activated and i would use it for full control settings of 3 other user accounts.
But i got the error: "system error 5. Access is denied."
Now, my position is quite bad. Login with guest account which was set as administrator, i still can not have full control of this laptop, so that all attempts of mine to change the user account settings is denied. This guest account also does not have a
password at all so that everyone can open my computer without typing a password. Because access is denied, i cannot set a password for the guest account even now it is the administrator account and i am loging in it.
p/s: I tried to refresh the system but still got the error: "There was a problem refreshing your PC. No changes were made". And i also tried to restore the system, but got the error: "System restore did not complete successfully. Your computer's
system files and settings were not changed. Details: A volume shadow copy service component encountered an unexpected error. Check the Application event log for more information (0x80042302)"
I went in registry editor in safe mode and did as you said but there was no "AutoAdminLogon", "DefaultUserName", "DefaultPassword". I only saw "AutoLogonSID" and other different names...
The problem i got half year ago has still remained and recently i made this mistake. https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/8ebd868c-bdfd-412e-95a6-9dc0095d431c/cannot-paste-any-online-pictures-from-any-websites-into-wordpowerpointonenote-2013?forum=officeitpro
I am a young woman who always creates mistakes when setting computer because of my carelessness.
Hi,
These phenomenon should be access rights problem, you need to check your current system User Accounts status. In my opinion, your administrator account probably disabled.
Open Run, type LUSRMGR.MSC, press Enter.
Then check your current system account which Group they are belongs to.
If there is any progress, please feel free let me know.
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support

I changed user account and now Time Machine won't back up.

A few months ago I had a problem with my user account. I can't remember the details but i think it would no longer accept my password. After doing some hunting around for answers i made a new user account with administrative priviledges and transferred all the files over to that account. I also changed the permissions on those files to allow me to access them as a new user identity. For the most part that seems to have worked for me, although possibly i have not done the right thing.
Anyway, i have just realised recently that although the little circular arrow that indicated that Time machine is backing up my files, it hasn't actually made a backup since the end of august, which was possibly when i did this funny thing with my user account.
I am assuming that Time Machine has just got very confused about the disappearance of my files from the previous user account and change of permissions etc.
What can i do? I read on 'pondini.org' that i could reset my time machine by deleting the preferences file from my system library and then rehooking up my external hard drive as the desired backup volume. It would then, i assume make a full backup to begin with?
Any advice gratefully received. I am a graphic designer and i do need to have my files backed up!
thanks
Lesley
ps i had some extra RAM installed a little while before the user account problem and only mentioning it here in case that is an issue with Time Machine as well.

Hi Lesely, sadly the great pondini has passed away.
Have you looked through Pondini's extensive TM help site?
http://Pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Can't imagine something not being covered there.

How do I create a new user account and migrate my data to it?

I have problem with Adobe Bridge crashing when I exit Camera Raw. I was advised by my local apple service store to create a new user account and test Bridge using the new account. It works fine. So what do I do now? I don't know what in my account is causing the conflict but assume that the solution might be e newly setup user.

Checking the behaviour in another user account is a TEST, not a solution! You don't need to move everything over. Otherwise, every time you get a user account problem, you'll keep moving to a new user account again and again.
If the problem does not occur in a new user account, then the cause is something IN your user account. This is usually a Preference file. Adobe Bridge seems to crash a lot, and it can usually be fixed by deleting the Bridge folder in <user>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/
You can also try deleting the Bridge preference file, which will be in <user>/Library/Preferences, and called com.adobe.bridge5.plist (or similar).
If that doesn't work, you can test removing a whole bunch of the various Adobe files in those folders. You can always put them back if they don't change anything. And you've got a backup, haven't you? ;-)

What exactly happens to my apps and settings when i create a new user account, and delete all the other user accounts?

Such apps and settings that apply to icloud, appstore, and itunes. I know the apps will still be in the new account and any other purchased apps will be in the appstore for re-download. But what will happen I delete user accounts and choose not to save any folders or files of the soon to be deleted user accound? I don't have a disk to do a clean install and I'm trying to give my super old macbook pro to a friend and I want to make sure the laptop is his and everything of mine is gone. Will erasing free space do that trick?

If it is not installed in HD>Applications folder and installed in a user account then it's gone with the user account. It's that simple.

Can I Create a New User Account and Move Existing Account ???

Lion was reinstal.
I'm suspecting issue with one user account.
Can I creat a new user account and move all my files to that new user?
What are the impact?
How about permissons on this files?
What about the Library Folder?
Thank you for your help and support.
BigBlaze

This should help you out after you have created the new user account. You are trying to make it much more complex than it needs to be. Just follow the directions in:
Transferring files from one User Account to another.

Questions about user-defined functions

Hello all,
I've got some questions about user-defined function in a message mapping:
1) How can I get the current date/time in format yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss ? What is the java code for this?
2) I want to use the StreamTransformation constant TIME_SENT, only this is not in the right time-zone.
It is GMT and it should be CET (1 hour difference). How can I convert this in Java?
Can somebody help me with this?
Thanks in advance.
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Hi Marco,
If the date format is fixed as you have mentioned,please use this:
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