User Folders on Computer, UGH

Hey guys,
I am trying to get my user files to stay on the server. When a user loges in they are greated with a message saying that the computer could not find the server share. This is makeing my anoyed, How do I get the users files to stay in the server "user" folder? I may also plan to move this folder to another hdd, soon tho
thanks

That helps - in fact, it's the essential information that was missing.
Setting the user's home directory to 'none' means that it's stored locally on each machine.
What you need to do is create a sharepoint on the server that's designated as a home directory automount.
Use Server Admin -> Server -> File Sharing
In the header, make sure that 'Volumes' and 'Browse are selected, then navigate to the directory where you want the users' home directories to be stored, then click the Share button.
In the Share options pane, enable Automount.
Ensue that the directory is set as a User home directories
Once you do that (and save the settings) you can go back to Workgroup Manager. In the Home tab for each user this mountpoint should now be available in addition to the existing 'none'.
Now when the user logs in, the client will automatically mount the relevant share point.

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Using two users on one computer

Hi,
I have had only one user on my powerbook since I bought it 4-5 years ago. I recently added a second user to my computer as a way to solve a problem I had with safari taking ages to load. It solved my safari problems but I have a few questions.
When I first logged into the second account, I noticed that things like my iTunes library was not there. I sorted that out just fine, but I noticed that the files in my movies and documents folders were also not there (about 60GB and 5GB for 65GB total). When I logged back into my old user account all the files were present. I copied the 65GB of data to my external drive, and logged into the second new user account.
One problem - when I look at the finder of both user accounts it shows I have 10GB space left on my internal drive. With all the files missing from my movies and documents folders, shouldn't I have 75GB free? Right now, I have copied my documents back from my external drive to the internal drive for the second new user, but I have no space for the movies files.
Now that I have the second user account setup and my safari is working fine, I would like to use only the new second account exclusively from now on - I just need a way to get the movies sorted out.
Thanks for any assistance.
Tim

Well if you use the Finder Go menu to Computer, a window opens up double click on your boot drive and then on Users folder, open the other user folder and open Public and drop your files into DropBox
When you do this it will copy them and change the permissions and user assigned to it, so log into the other user and place them into your respective normal folders.
Once you have all your files over and don't need the old user, use System Preferences > Accounts to delete it if you wish, however it's good two Admin accounts on the machine in case something bad happens in the other. Some people for security reasons on use a Standard account for most uses and a emergency Admin account.
One can still do most Admin things in Standard user.

Multiple user folders, only one user account

Hello everyone,
I recently had to reformat my Macbook and reinstall. In the Macintosh HD/users folder are three folders: one with an icon of a little house with my computer's short name, another called Shared and another with my first and last name.
In System Preferences/Accounts, I only have one user. Whenever I use the finder to drag and drop a file into, say, Movies, it drags it into the second user folder ie. not the one with the little house icon. Consequently, Front Row cannot find my avi's and iTunes cannot find my music.
While I can (and have) simply transfer all my files from one folder to another, it doesn't explain where this extra user came from and why it seems to have control over the Pictures, Movies and Music folders on the left hand side in Finder while the account that I'm logged in on is somehow secondary.
I really don't want to have to reformat my machine again. How do I delete this second user safely? Where did it come from?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a million
Dave

Some ways that you can end up with extra user folders are:
You migrated data from an older computer using the migration assistant or target disk mode.
If that is not the case then what has happened is that you done an archive and install not preserving user and network settings but then that folder should be located in a previous system folder.
The most likely scenario, is however, that you somehow managed to rename your home folder.
When that happens and you restart your computer the system will look for a folder with your username, that name on your computer, is the name on the folder that has the home icon.
If a folder with that name is not found a new user folder will be created, it will however, not contain any of your current data files.
Open the folder which does not have the home icon and check for your user data.
If it contains your user data you need to rename it back to the name of the home folder with the icon.
It is not that simple though since you can't have 2 folders with the same name.
So move the folder with the home icon into shared.
Now rename the other folder to its proper name.
Then log out and when you log back in you will be logged into the other user folder with your data.
If you created any files under the new user folder you can retrieve them from the folder you dragged into Shared and you will note that it no longer has the home icon.

Sharing user folders between two OSX partitions

I have two partitions on my drive running OSX, one running 10.9.4 (we'll call this Partition 1), the other running another recent version of OSX that I apparently can't name here because someone out there doesn't know how to read or is being a troll (you know who you are), and keeps getting my thread deleted for no valid reason. We'll call the second partition, you guessed it, Partition 2.
What I'd like to be able to do is have my computer booted to Partition 2 and access my user folders (movies, photos, etc) that exist on Partition 1, as it's a drag to have to reboot to Partition 1 every time I want to work, watch a movie, listen to music, etc, etc. etc.
I've had no luck. No matter what I try, when I'm booted to Partition 2 and try to access the user folders in Partition 1, they all have the red circle on the icon, and I get a "you don't have permission..." error when I try to open them.Helpful facts:
The username is the same for my user account on both Partition 1 and Partition 2.
I've tried allowing permissions to everyone, and in Get Info I've tried applying the permission settings to enclosed items (the only suggestion I got on the discussion I started about a month ago on this issue.
No, I don't have the HD space in my MBPr to have a duplication of the entire user account on the other partition, nor would I want to - if something is modified in Partition 1, I want to have fluid access in Partition 2.
When in Partition 1, I can move files into the public folder for my Partition 2 user (which I've done a couple times when I know in advance that I might want a file to play with in Partition 2 - though this is nowhere near a practical solution to my issue).
Thanks for any help.

You have two different account usernames and passwords, so you cannot access the information in a user account unless you are logged into that account. If you want to access data across the partitions, then both user accounts must have the same username and password. You may then access the information directly or using aliases.
The alternative to this is to use the entire home folder on one partition as the default home folder on the other partition. You can do this using Users & Groups preferences.
Open Users & Groups preferences. Click on the lock icon and authenticate. CTRL- or RIGHT-click on your user account listing in the sidebar and select Advanced Options from the context menu. You will see a field labeled "Home dir:" At the right end you will see a Change button. Click on it. In the file dialog locate the Home folder now located on the other partition (HDD/Users/account_name/.) Select the folder, click on Open button. Restart the computer as directed.
When the computer boots up it will now be using the Home folder located on the other partition.
I am the person who reported your posts because of the discussion related to beta software. Apparently, you did not like what you were told by the moderators and decided to try again. By insisting on not following the forum rules you were the troll, not I. All you had to do was simply refer to two partitions without regard to what operating systems were involved, etc.
You have an answer to your question despite your rudeness.

User folders in different language!

I got some serious computer troubles some days ago that now seems to be fixed but my USER ACCOUNT folders (I mean Documents, Library, Movies, Music, Pictures, Public and Sites) are in a different language (It could be in spanish but now appears in english). I suspect that i moved or trashed some of the USER preferences. Can you help me to solve it, please? I'm losing my sanity :-/ Thanks so much!

Thanks Eric. I did it but it seems not to solve the problem. If I go to International, into the System Preferences, and change to other languages I get after reboot the logical results in the whole computer system, but my user folders remains fixed in ENGLISH no matter the language I chose.
If I try to rename the folders in spanish, like the rest of the system, I lose the icons and the MacOS wont recognize it as user folders :-/
Please, any other help?
Thanks again, Eric.

User settings reset and locked out of user folders ! How do I retreive?

Hi everyone,
I'm sure a number of people here on the forums have come across the problem with the blue tint that appears every now and then. It usually appears when connecting an external monitor after the you come back from the screen saver.
Yesterday it happened for the first time without an external monitor connected. I have found a number of sites that have suggested using the command 'sudo chmod 664 *' within the Terminal. I have used it a couple of times to fix this problem but it did not work hence the reason it happened yesterday without a monitor connected. When I did use this command previously I first entered
cd /library/colorsync/profiles/display
When i did it for this occassion i forgot to enter the display folder first.
After this I did a restart and all my user settings were reset and I was locked out of all my user folders. I lost all my desktop settings and everything was back to when I first started my computer.
I did some hunting and found the command 'sudo chmod 777'. I tried this then did a reset and my desktop background returned and the folders were unlocked.
What I want to know is if this is the correct command to bring everything back to normal?
My user permissions in terminal are listed below
Using the command sudo chmod 664 *
drw-rw-r--+ 15 JoeBros staff 510 11 Jun 23:33 Desktop
drw-rw-r--+ 19 JoeBros staff 646 22 May 20:44 Documents
drw-rw-r--+ 46 JoeBros staff 1564 25 Jun 15:08 Downloads
drw-rw-r--+ 45 JoeBros staff 1530 10 Jun 23:56 Library
drw-rw-r--+ 4 JoeBros staff 136 1 Apr 19:19 Movies
drw-rw-r--+ 38 JoeBros staff 1292 4 Apr 18:08 Music
-rw-rw-r-- 1 JoeBros staff 92352512 29 May 18:20 Parallels-Desktop-5600-Mac-en.dmg
drw-rw-r--+ 57 JoeBros staff 1938 25 Jun 16:02 Pictures
drw-rw-r--+ 6 JoeBros staff 204 14 Jun 15:56 Public
drw-rw-r--+ 5 JoeBros staff 170 26 Mar 00:59 Sites
This is what is displayed after sudo chmod 777
total 180376
drwxrwxrwx+ 15 JoeBros staff 510 11 Jun 23:33 Desktop
drwxrwxrwx+ 19 JoeBros staff 646 22 May 20:44 Documents
drwxrwxrwx+ 46 JoeBros staff 1564 25 Jun 15:08 Downloads
drwxrwxrwx+ 45 JoeBros staff 1530 10 Jun 23:56 Library
drwxrwxrwx+ 4 JoeBros staff 136 1 Apr 19:19 Movies
drwxrwxrwx+ 38 JoeBros staff 1292 4 Apr 18:08 Music
-rwxrwxrwx 1 JoeBros staff 92352512 29 May 18:20 Parallels-Desktop-5600-Mac-en.dmg
drwxrwxrwx+ 57 JoeBros staff 1938 25 Jun 16:02 Pictures
drwxrwxrwx+ 6 JoeBros staff 204 14 Jun 15:56 Public
drwxrwxrwx+ 5 JoeBros staff 170 26 Mar 00:59 Sites
Does this look correct ??
Any help would be great thanks

I assume this access is open to everyone when I connecto any wireless network
No necessarily, it depends whether you just changed your home folders and nothing else.
But just your home folders present a problems as they should have extended attributes which are now removed. More on that later.
Using one chmod to a directory affects all equally, though the files may have individually different permissions.
I don't know how extensively you have altered the modes permissions, but from what you have shown in your first post your Home folders are incorrect.
For your home folder, which is the default location when you start Terminal, and I dont think you have strayed from there, all the listings, except Parallels are folders, prefaced with the letter d. for folder.
On my machine, for example, the pattern for the home folders all show
drwx------@ 5 xxxxxx staff 170 25 Jun 06:07 Desktop
normally that would be chmod 700 Desktop which will get you
drwx------
but note the @ which shows an extended attribute or ACL in Leopard.
to write the ACL shown as @
You will need to read
man chmod about ACL MANIPULATION OPTIONS
Personally, I think that playing around with chmod without a backup was not a good idea, and I wonder if your ambition has exceeded your knowledge. Sorry if that sounds tough, but a possible Archive and Install may be your safest path I think because what you have messed with was no small oops with a simple fix.
You could just change those home folders to chmod 700 and see how it goes without the attribute, or bite the bullet and do an Archive and Install.
I do not run parallels and so have no idea what is permissions should be.
That Time capsule is starting to look pretty good now
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Two networked macs with identical user folders...

Situation: my wife and I each own our own Mac, but 2 isn't always enough. Often a friend will come over and snarf one up for extended periods of time. When this happens, one of us can't access our own account (we have a guest account on each) on our computer.
Solution: Is there a program that will completely and safely synchonize our users folders across both macs? It would be great for us to be able to sit down at either machine, anytime, with all of our preferences/bookmarks/documents instead of having "his" and "her" macs.
Anybody have a suggestion? There's a myrid of backup/sync software out there, and I've tried many, but thus far none have fit the bill. BTW, we have mostly all the same software/apps installed, and in the App. folder vs. our home folders if this helps at all...
TIA!
24" iMac, Dual 2.0 G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Off the top of my head I'm thinking of this solution:
create the same account on each mac.
Start sharing on each mac
create an applescript that will see if the other mac is available, and if so connect to the home folder on the other mac
have another script or workflow that will check for changed files on logoff and synch those files to the other mac.
There are also links out there on how to use flash drives as portable home directories. That might work for you.

Folders under Computer-Nautilus

Hi all,
I tried to create shortcut folders under Computer. I was unable to create one or it won't accept any folders that I created in home when I dragged it over. I googled, but no luck.
I saw Nautilus image. It had Document folder, Music, Video, Pictures, and other essential folders under Computer. Is there a way that I could create one under Computer?
Thank you
Rage

Hmm...not sure what the exact issue is from your post so some guesswork below!
If you want more than default folders under "Computer" then I think you're out of luck.
If you want addtional entires in the Nautilus sidebar then you could use WorMzy's suggestion below, or alternatively enter the folder you want to add in Nautilus and "Bookmarks-->Add Bookmark"
However, I guess you might be refering to the standard entries under Computer eg. the "vidoes, music, pictures" you mention...if so then that's because these standard directories are managed by xdg-user-dirs (which you probably already have installed) via configuration in $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dir (which contains a list of all the standard directories and their paths). Gnome, unlike KDE, doesn't provide a GUI method of configuring these, and even if you create the folders manually I don't think they appear. As far as I can see (apologies if my uninformed guesswork is entirely off base!) Arch doesn't a) create these for you when you add a user b) doesn't run xdg-user-dirs-update on each login (as some distro's do - see the freedesktop.org page - a google search should do it).
In summary, if you want this to work try loging in as your user and running "xdg-user-dirs-update", this should create the folders if they don't exist and wirte the appropriate configuration.
You may need to log out then in again...not sure.
PS. I've run into this issue myself before and haven't seen it mentioned anywhere in the Arch wiki...as it affects more than just nautilus eg. tracker and gome-documents don't work without this being set up correctly I've meant to add something about it to the gome wiki page...and failed...suppose I should check it's not documented somewhere obvious first and finally get round to it if not. EDIT - not sure if this is new or I just missed it...see the 1st section of the arch gnome wiki page for further info.
Last edited by PWheelsner (2012-01-29 22:15:44)

2 macs with identical user folders?

Situation: my wife and I each own our own Mac, but 2 isn't always enough. Often a friend will come over and snarf one up for extended periods of time. When this happens, one of us can't access our own account (we have a guest account on each) on our computer.
Solution: Is there a program that will completely and safely synchonize our users folders across both macs? It would be great for us to be able to sit down at either machine, anytime, with all of our preferences/bookmarks/documents instead of having "his" and "her" macs.
Anybody have a suggestion? There's a myrid of backup/sync software out there, and I've tried many, but thus far none have fit the bill. BTW, we have mostly all the same software/apps installed, and in the App. folder vs. our home folders if this helps at all...
TIA!

At a technical level it's a bad idea for both of you to have separate computers with identical accounts. This sort of violates the privacy concept of a multi-user system such as OS X. What may be a better solution in the long run is to have two external Firewire hard drives. Each of you can clone your system to an external drive. Each of you can use backup software to maintain the clone by doing regular incremental backups. Because these backups are done on a regular basis each of you has the benefit of keeping your data safe, and because the external drives are bootable each of you can boot one another's computer from your external drive. Your data are safe, your privacy is protected, and you can use each other's computer with your own individual systems. I can suggest the following:
Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
3. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
4. Deja Vu (Shareware)
5. PsynchX 2.1.1 and RsyncX 2.1 (Freeware)
6. Carbon Copy Cloner (Freeware - 3.0 is a Universal Binary)
7. SuperDuper! (Commercial)
The following utilities can also be used for backup, but cannot create bootable clones:
1. Backup (requires a .Mac account with Apple both to get the software and to use it.)
2. Toast
3. Impression
4. arRSync
Apple's Backup is a full backup tool capable of also backing up across multiple media such as CD/DVD. However, it cannot create bootable backups. It is primarily an "archiving" utility as are the other two.
Impression and Toast are disk image based backups, only. Particularly useful if you need to backup to CD/DVD across multiple media.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files.
However, if the above isn't something you're willing to do then you will need to provide more specific information on just what you want to be able to do that the backup/sync software you've tried has been unable to do.

HT202213 I have 3 users on one computer with 3 unique user accounts. Each have unique ITunes accounts. How do we share our music libraries using home sharing?

I have 3 users on one computer with 3 unique user accounts. Each of us have separate and unique ITunes accounts. How do we share our music libraries using Home Sharing? Everything that I can find talks about sharing between networked computers, but this is all on the same computer. I just want to share between ITunes accounts. Thanks!

Hi b noir, I also have two users on one pc with two different iTunes libraries. But I also want to put them onto an external hard drive so that I can free up some memory on the pc. So I figure I need to consolidate the two users iTunes libraries first before moving to hard drive? But not quite sure how to do that on the iTunes 11? Thanking you in advance!!

Multiple hard drives, user folders and SSD's

I thouhght I would ask for advice here before I even start.
OK first a bit of background.
OSA X 10.6.8
When I bought my Mac, I fitted extra 1TB hard drives, setup like this:
Drive 1 Mac OS 500gb
Drive 2 User home folders..moved from MachintoshHD/users 1TB
Drive 3 Data Folders, used for import of video, music and data before inport to Aperture/iPhoto/ Final Cut etc 1TB
Drive 4 Time machine backign up Drive 1 and 2 1TB
All drives as stndandard from Apple Caviar Black
Drive 3 is backed up via ChronoSync to a remote NAS box.
In the need for speed I removed the 500gb drive No. 1 and fitted a 120Gb SSD drive...and although it is quicker, it is not as good as expected, no doubt in part to the fact that the User Home folders are on a standard drive
I can't jsut move the user Home folders back to the SSD, due to space of the Aperture, iPhoto and iTunes Librarys in the User Home folders.
Iphoto 110Gb and Itunes 440Gb
So I was thinking Use my Drive 2..that is currently the 'Home Folder drive" as a shared data store for the iPhoto Itunes and other librays.
But need help to do this and advice on how to go about it
I will leave this post here for now as I have just had an energency work callout. But any suggestions or advice before I start will be very much appreciated.
I do not want to risk the iPhoto database/faces etc with a move form one drive to another and have it all go sour
Thanks
Neil

"Leave just the /Users/my_account/Library on the SSD" Yes...that is what I want to achieve...at the moement it is not on the SSD it is on the seperate Users HDD ( No. 2) I want the User folders back on the SSD No luckily did not buy from Apple..just bought the same type as fitted...Think I bought them from Dabs. but itwas 2009, so can't remeber now "Use preference to tell iPhoto etc to use another hard drive, same for iTunes media " So can i just copy the iPhoto and iTunes bundles across from one drive to another ? or are permisions etc going to get screwed, depending on the permissions of the drive I copy too? I do not liek to stripe drives , create arrays ..OK HDD space is relatively cheap now so the loss of space caused by using a RAID array ios not a major issue, but OI like to keep individual drives as individual drives...so no re build is needed if there is a crash. I rather keep three indepant drives ..all with same data on them and rotate the drives on a weekly /monthly basis.. I have two FreeNAS boxes with identicla drives in them and use them as indepandatnbackups...Backup is not the iissue here, it is the moving of iPhoto librarys etc and the possible confusion the databases get into when moved with permissions etc

Another user of your computer is currently using this connection. This user must disconnect before you can log on.

Hello
I have a single computer that is going to be shared between 5 people. In an effort to save time. I wanted the users to have a single shared LOCAL login to the computer.
Then each user could pull up an RDS session through RDWEB on our 2012 r2 RDS farm.
However, when I attempt to log in more than one user through RDWEB I receive:
Another user of your computer is currently using this connection. This user must disconnect before you can log on.
I have done some research on this, and followed this advice, and did the following steps on all my RDS session host and broker servers
Enable Multiple RDP Sessions
- Log into the server using Remote Desktop.
- Open the start screen (press the Windows key) and type gpedit.msc and open it
- Go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host > Connections.
- Set Restrict Remote Desktop Services user to a single Remote Desktop Services session to Disabled.
- Double click Limit number of connections and set the RD Maximum Connections allowed to 999999.
However, it did not solve the problem. Anyone have suggestions?

Hi Michael,
In addition you can try below registry setting for multiple remote session.
HKEY_Local_Machine\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server
fSingleSessionPerUser REG_DWORD 0x00000000
Note: By default the registry value is set to 1, but you need to change to 0.
Also if you are making connection through gateway then recheck whether the setting is enabled on gateway side for multiple session.
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki
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Windows intune message are you the primary users of this computer?

When logged in with a adminstrative account, we successfully installed the Windows Intune client with the login crecentials that are specific for one user.
When this user is logged in to his Windows desktop and he wants to start the Company Portal, he receives a message after using his Intune account credentials:
"Are you the primary users of this computer? To take full advantage of the Windows Intune Portal, and to able to install apps on this computer, it has to be linked to you. If you aren't linked as the primary user of this computer, you will not be able
to install apps from this portal.
You have the option Yes or No.
When selecting Yes, you will receive an error: Oops... an error occured! Link was not successful. An error occured when we tried to link you to this device. You will not be able to install apps onto this device from Windows Intune Portal before you are linked
to the device. For assistance Contact IT.
More information will show you an Activity ID code.
When you continue you can install apps from the Portal, but each time you connect to the Portal you will receive this message.
Is this a bug?

Depending on how you plan on using Intune this may not apply but for us, it provided a "decent" work around for windows 8.1 devices.
During our initial testing of Intune, we got around this "error" message on Windows 8.1 devices by installing the Company Portal app. It required a separate Windows Store account to successfully install the app as none of my corporate test accounts
were linked to Microsoft accounts, which you had the option to do.
Once the App was installed I was finally able to log into our Company Store with the test Intune account that was linked to the Windows 8.1 tablet. Our published LOB apps were listed along with the linked device too.
You could definitely deploy or sideload the Company Portal app, but for my testing purposes installing from the Store was sufficient. Unfortunately, logging in from the website or the Applications link located in the Windows Intune Center
still will not work. A solution would be greatly appreciated as we were hoping to deploy to Windows 7 devices also.
H_C

I tried to set up two users on one computer, now I can't make iTunes match work for either.

Lots of people seem to be having multiples user problems on iTunes, but I can't find a solution to mine so please help.
I got a new iMac. Switched it on. Connected to iTunes Match - all fine and dandy.
After a couple of weeks I decided I should follow Apple's advice and set up a separate user account on the imac for my wife. I connected to iTunes match using her user name and down loaded a bunch of her favourite music.
Naive fool that I was, I didn't realise I had fallen into Apple's moronic multi-user trap. Only one user on one computer can use it???? Why???
I thought that it was me being stupid so I switched everything off - including iTunes Match. Now nothing works.
If I log on with my iTunes ID and try to switch on iTunes Match it asks me if I want to add this computer, and then gives me the "This computer is already associated with an Apple ID - you can't use it for 90 days" message.
If I use my wife's iTunes ID, it asks her if she would like to subscribe for £21.99 a year.
The exact same thing happens whether I sign into the computer itself with my account or hers.
This is awe inspringly annoying. Please tell me how to fix this.
thanks.

At this time there is no "solution." You'll simply have to wait the 90 days to re-enable iTunes Match.
For now here is my suggestion. In your User Account, in OS X, sign out of whatever iTunes Store account you are signed in with. Then sign in with your store account and leave it at that. Now sign out of your OS X User Account, sign into your wife's OS X User Account and sign into the iTunes Store with her Apple ID (if necessary sign out of the account first).
Now, you can go back to your OS X User Account and attempt to enable iTunes Match. You will probably get the "wait 90 days" message. If so leave it, mark your calendar, and wait for the 90 days to expire. You can try contacting iTunes Store support at <https://expresslane.apple.com> if you wish, but I really do not know how useful that will be.
Incidentally, you get the message to pay for the service when trying to enable it on your wife's Apple ID because the service has not been purchased using that Apple ID. iTunes Match is designed to be a single-user service that is never signed out of and is associated with one, and only one, Apple ID and a regional store.

Move Users folders from external drive to a new internal drive

Hi All,
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.
What I want to do now is to move the user folders to the internal drive, and use the external for backups. It seems that I can't use Migration Assistant because it only works when moving data from another Mac or another startup drive. I've looked around the forums and on the web, and the only thing I found was a post on TUAW in which the writer talked about eventually having to do this but without giving much info about how to do it (http://www.tuaw.com/2009/05/14/tuaw-tip-moving-your-home-folder-to-another-disk- or-moving-it).
Does anyone have any experience moving the user folders from an external drive to an internal drive, (or even just having a Mac recognize user folders on an external drive from another machine)?

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

User Folders on Computer, UGH

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