Trouble deleting unselectable user folders on new machine

I just recently got a new iMac and was switching files into from my older machine. I had folders for each member of the family under the "places" section on the left hand side of the desktop. Now I have those folders there on the new machine, but they are unselectable, and so I can't delete them. I've already re-copied legitimate family member folders from my LaCie external HD, but I'd love to get rid of the ghost folders. How?

I had the same problem with migration assistant after a hard disk failure & it wasn't wanting to restore since it was a new computer. I keep my time machine BU on a time capsule, not a thumb drive, so the first few steps below may vary.
So, look in shared & see if you can find your time machine drive & double-click to open. There should be a folder called Data. Open that. It will take a while to populate, just wait.
There should be 1 (or more if you set up a new machine name at some pt) sparsebundle files in there. Doubleclick the one you want; it will mount a disk image called Timemachine Backups. That contains a folder called backups.backupdb. Open that. It should have your machine name, open that. There should be a whole bunch of dated folder; pick the most recent one. Open that. It should contain a folder with your boot drive name. Open that. Then you should find folders with copies of all the folders you have on there. You can then drag contents to the matching places on your new machine. Some applications may not install properly this way, but most of mine did. Those that didn't I had to get the installer disks our or redownload them.
SO far Time Machine has worked pretty well, except for attempting to fix printer drivers that got hosed by Lion, & got wiped out completly in the repair attempt. Migration Assistant didn't work.

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2 user folders after time machine backup. Macbook Pro 13", Mac OS X 10.6.8

After a time machine backup my macbook pro runs fine, however the backup has created a 2nd user file. my new user file is now named like my old one, just with " 1" added. I have 2 user folders, can I delete the old one?
After a random check of the content in both user folders I found out that it's not identical. Some files that weren't backed up with the time machine before the re-setup are in the original folder, while the new uder folder obviously only backup what it could find on the time machine disc. (Time machine backed up my whole hdd about 2 days before the crash & re-setup)
Due to this situation my local HDD is almost full now. The original user folder has 205 GB, the new one user 1 has 210 GB, plus applications with a 500GB HDD, I now have only 44GB left.
Can I delete the old user folder?
Can I then re-name the new one (user 1) back to "user"?
Thanks
J.

I've never heard of a 'problem' as you're having - and I searched Pondoni's Time Machine Troubleshooting FAQs and couldn't fine anythig similar.
I would be wary of deleting anything manually from your TM backup - the sparsebundles are rather sensitive. If you like, however, you could always erase your TM backups and start anew... that's the only way I would know to 'fix' the problem.
Good luck,
Clinton

Deleteing a users acct with new home acct?

OK...I gave my gf my 1.33 15", iBook. She had an old 500mhz, graphite iMac. There was so much junk on the iMac I just networked and dragged over the files she wanted to keep. I was afraid syncing the two would put things in weird places and set up weird settings. Just wanted to start a new.
I deleted my user account and added her, however the "Home" icon in finder still has my name. She is listed under users in the HD. Also in the system preferences/accounts, she is listed as the only account, as "Karyls iBook" but my name is still reflected as the "short name". Even unlocking doesn't let me change this name.
How do I set the "Home" icon to reflect her as the user? I'm sure I've screwed something up!
Many Thanks!
Trey

Are you logging on to her account? The "Home" icon always appears on the logged account. I assume you have Fast User Switching turned OFF. When she's the logged admin user the "Home" icon will appear on her user folder. Whatever is there of your old account can be dragged to the Trash and deleted.
If you continue having a problem, then you might try the following:
1. First, boot from your Tiger DVD, select your language and click on the Continue button, then select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu, select your boot hard drive, go to the First Aid tab, and click the button for Repair Disk. Repeat this until no trouble is found. Then click on the Repair Permissions button. Then quit DU, return to the installer and shutdown the computer for a couple of minutes.
This will assure that the drive is OK and permissions are OK.
2. Next, boot to single user mode by restarting and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND-S keys until a black screen with white type appears.
3. At the prompt, type the following commands pressing return after each command line:
/sbin/fsck -yf
mount -uw /
rm /private/var/db/.AppleSetupDone
shutdown -r now
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Problems moving a mobile user to a new machine

Hi there,
the subject already points it out roughly.
Situation is as follows:
I've got a OS X 10.8 server providing several services (mail, contacts, File server etc.). I have some clients attached, those are dedicated to one user with a mobile home which is synching between server and client (set via Workgroup Manager). Clients also have 10.8 or 10.9 respectively. One remark: These systems have evolved from 10.6 to their current version, especially te server was 10.6 originally.
I now want to replace one MBP with a current MBPr. Both have the same OS (10.9). I tried it with doing a 'last' sync back from the MBP to the server, and afterwards an initial sync to the new MBPr. After doing this I was able to create a mobile home on the new machine (at least I thought), but the sync was done in a second and nothing was transferred. The situation didn't change after some more tries. If I log in in an do NOT create a mobile home and start the user from the server, this comes up with all data.
Any idea how I get the data over the the new machine? Do I have to use the new "Profile Manager"? I am just curious as it is working like a charm in the "old" setup, but does not work with the new MBPR.
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Well, it seems that I at least have an idea what the reason might be. The FileSyncAgent.log on the client shows the following entries that hint to a Permission Error (see below).
Any idea which permissions are meant? I think there might be an issue with the filesystem - any idea what rights are required to allow proper synching?
[13/12/17 20:35:18.980] Starting manual sync of "HomeSync_Mirror".
[13/12/17 20:35:19.417] EXCEPTION: Permissions Error
[13/12/17 20:35:19.424] Peer "network" is unable to sync. Not enough peers will be available to continue syncing.
[13/12/17 20:35:19.424] Aborting sync of "HomeSync_Mirror".
[13/12/17 20:35:19.457] Sync of "HomeSync_Mirror" encountered errors. (Permissions Error)
[13/12/17 20:35:19.457] Last successful sync completed at 0001-12-30 00:00:00 +0000.
[13/12/17 20:35:19.457] Finished sync of "HomeSync_Mirror".
[13/12/17 20:35:30.344] Starting automatic sync of "HomeSync_Mirror".
[13/12/17 20:35:32.289] EXCEPTION: Permissions Error
[13/12/17 20:35:32.405] Peer "network" is unable to sync. Not enough peers will be available to continue syncing.
[13/12/17 20:35:32.405] Aborting sync of "HomeSync_Mirror".
[13/12/17 20:35:32.544] Sync of "HomeSync_Mirror" encountered errors. (Permissions Error)
[13/12/17 20:35:32.544] Last successful sync completed at 0001-12-30 00:00:00 +0000.
[13/12/17 20:35:32.544] Finished sync of "HomeSync_Mirror".

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Shouldn't "Serial#" be a control (and an integer)? You do a complex song and dance to add leading zeroes. Simply format your serial number with format "%04d"
Shouldn't "Operator" be a control?
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never use default tunnels for references.
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Overall, you should use a state machine architecture instead of sequences. It will be much more flexible and will take even less diagram space. The indicators can be outside the state case, so all states can write to them. No locals needed.
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I have a new hosting provider so I need to re-set up my POP mail account on my iPhone. I first deleted the mailbox account on iPhone, then re-created it with the settings provided by my email provider. I know these settings are correct, because the whole process worked on my iMac mail.
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I have used LR1 for several years on an ancient Mac G4 so not a beginner but didn't find anyplace else to post a question. If anyone cares to redirect me to the right place, I welcome that.
The library module has always been a mystery, I've always been groping in the dark. In spite of that, I've processed a few thousand raw files and have always been comfortable with adding metadata, and working in the develop module, which is all that I need.
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So the LR needed to know how to find the correct path. I didn't know how to direct it, and a LR savvy friend also was stumped also. So I experimented. Unsuccessfully.
I should explain what I mean by the "jumble" of folders: On my G4 Mac, the actual heirarchy of folders from my hard drive never appeared in LR, it was just a list arranged alphabetically. That was inconvenient, but I didn't know why that was happening and didn't know how to fix it.
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My original image files, and the original catalog, are all still backed up on my old computer, so nothing is lost, it's just not being transferred properly.
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Jon,
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Maybe this means I need to start over, and I'm fine about doing that that, but I don't know what it takes to accomplish that. I'm concerned now that any changes I make out of guesswork could only make the problem harder to resolve. It just feels to me like something I did at the beginning just wasn't right, and now it's a tangle.
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Time Machine deleted all my folders now wont restore

Big trouble here and I am lost as to how to fix it.
I have a Mac Pro, and two users on it
All the Users folders (home folders) are stored on a separate HDD, moved from there usual location on the system drive and the home folder locations changed in Accounts/Users/advanced options.
This morning I wanted to restore everything as it was a few hours ago.
So I opened Finder and navigated to the relevant 'Users' Hard drive.
Then opened Time machine from the dock.
Went back to the correct restore point and clicked Restore.
This was the root of the drive.The Root contains one folder called users
This has two folder for the two users.
Inside each one are the user folders you would expect to see:
Desktop
Documents
Downloads
Library
etc
TM said Preparing to restore.Asked for admin password and began restoring.
it then gave a message saying I do not have sufficient prvilidges for the current operation and quit.
It quit after deleting all the files in both users home folders but before it restored anything.
So now I am left with two empty home folders, each containing just one sub folde 'Library', and that looks about half empty.
So basically it has trashed my user data..everything gone and it wont restore.
How do I restore the data back from the Time machine drive? I have turned off time machine backups for now so no more backups are made, and am afraid to log off or turn machine off in case some data vital for log in has also been deleted
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Neil

Definetly Admin user....two users on here, both admin.
The Time machine Drive is an internal 1TB drive.
Definitely selected the correct backup folder...It showed something like
Preparing to copy 13,000 files 133Gb, 3 hours to go, then the progress bar started up, then it said that some files that were beign replaced needed admin privileges, and asked for user-name and password.
I entered admin user-name and pwd, and it continued for about 10 minutes, then failed saying I did not have the correct privileges.
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So I am managing a group of about 80+ iMacs and an Xserve. I would like to delete the contents of the users folder excluding the arduser (user i will be using to run script), shared folder and a desktop alias file. I want to be able to connect to the server from computer im wiping click on the script and have it run without having to choose folders and click extra things, just double click and done. Ideally I would like this script to do much more, such as delete all cs3, 4, 5 apps and a couple of app folders all in one swoop. Would love some help, I am new to Applescripts and am unfamiliar witht the language.
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I'm not sure I understand this. Why would you log into the server to wipe the users on the local machine? Why not wipe them from the local machine directly?
In any case, this is better accomplished with bash rather than AppleScript.
Suppose you have a user account called 'John' on the local machine. You'd use
sudo rm -rf /Users/John/*
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This is why I think I need to.
My computer got hit by lightening, and I may have created a new user account through netinfo rather than system preferences /accounts/+user. Mail used to open twice, but no longer. Now, Safari askes me for my keychain password twice, Spotlight can't find a folder on the computer when the search is restricted to folder and computer, though the folder is there and easyfind finds it, and when System Preferences/Spotlight/Privacy has the hard drive icon added, then deleted, Spotlight still does not find anything. (Yes, everything is backed up, on CD, DVD, and online.) Microsoft Tec Support says
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I believe Microsoft. So, creating a new user was easy.
But copying files uses up too much hard drive (movies, music), and may miss keychains, preferences, mail, address book, and documents. Since Spotlight no longer works, who knows what is happening. (Yes, I've repaired persmissions, and disk repair. No change). I'm using up my hard drive trying to move files to the new user. If I share files, or put them into a public folder, then delete the old user, will I still have the old user's files in the new user's account? It is not clear to me what I should be trying to do in order to create a new user, move my old files etc over, and delete old user. Thanks.
My responses will be slow, because I have to drive to town to use the internet. I've ordered a new airport which may take care of that problem. SO be patient.

Hey -
I need to do the EXACT same thing, but have no idea how. Has anyone out there done this?
My situation is a tad different..this is a new Mac (and I'm a brand new Mac user). Tons of querks occur under my original account (videos won't run, Safari won't support certain plug-ins). I spent 6 hours on the phone w/ 4 different Apple Reps and nobody could fix it. A rep finally looked at my MacBook Pro in person today. He created a new account just to see if that would work and under that new account, everything works perfectly fine (no querks, can view video). He tried switching a million settings in my original account to no avail.
He said to create a new account (as he did) and move my files over to the new account and then go back to the original and delete it. How do you do this?! I can't figure it out! I've got a new account created, but of course it just has the default folders in it w/ the little red icons next to them! Thanks in advance!

Move Users folders from external drive to a new internal drive

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I have a white Intel iMac running Snow Leopard. I have kept the Users folder (4 users) on an external hard disk (too many photos and movies). The internal hard disk recently died, but since all user data was on the external, I wasn't too worried.
The iMac now has a new hard disk, and I've installed the system back, starting from the original System Install DVD so that all the iApps are also reinstalled.
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Hilal Malawi wrote:
Thanks, but that site doesn't have a clear answer.
Correct. As it clearly states, there are too many variables to have detailed solutions for every possible situation.
In the 'pink' box, which best matches my situation, the instructions begin with: "•You must be logged on to the account being moved...".
That's not clear at all. How do I log in to an account that doesn't exist yet? Connecting a hard disk that has a home folder to a new Mac doesn't allow me to 'log on' to that home folder's account, because it doesn't yet exist on the new Mac.
You may have to set up user accounts "from scratch." Then change the ownership and permissions on the old home folders so you can copy the contents of the sub-folders from the old home folders to the new ones.
If you're comfortable with permissions and Terminal, this may help: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20013630-263.html

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