Upgraded my HD and now 99% of my apps wont open in one user profile

Question

I upgraded my HD yesterday. I cloned my current hard drive using CCC. When I login under my profile 99% of my apps wont open. The ones that do are iTunes, MS Office 2008, & Toast 9 but none of the rest will including all apple iLife programs. However; when my wife logs in under her profile all the apps open fine. I have repaired all permissions but they still wont open in my profile? Any ideas? If I create a new user profile and move all my personal files, music, pictures into the new profile will that work? I am assuming it would since everything opens for my wife. I hope there is a quick fix but I guess creating a new profile would be easier than reinstalling the OS.

Answer 1

this is very strange. cloning with CCCloner shouldn't affect anything. I suspect you had some problems in your home directory to begin with. Given this I would migrate to a new user. the easiest is to delete your current user and save the home directory as a .dmg (you'll be given that option). then mount that dmg when logged in as a new user as copy what you need there. use [this post|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6185507] as a guide.