On 1/21/08 6:54 AM, "Roger S. Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The original inquiry.... > > [Jim Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 1/20/08 12:08 PM: >> I've just done something VERY stupid.] > > ...noted that he had mixed up files and applications from a G5, a Mac Pro > running 10.4.11, and 10.5.x applications; used Migration Assistant from the > G5 into a non-administrative account on the Mac Pro; moved something from > that account to an administrative account on the Mac Pro, and then... Not quite, but close, and equally stupid. I registered my username on the Mac Pro when I booted it for the first time, creating an administrator account (OS X 10.5.1). When I ran the migration assistant, it put my stuff into a NEW administrator account on the Mac Pro; it wouldn't merge it into the same account, which is what I'd anticipated it would do. Although this "stuff" came from a Dual G5 Power Mac running 10.4.1, the administrator account created by the migration assistant on the Mac Pro was destined to run (in fact, DID run, briefly) in the 10.5.1 environment. Still, the morass created by my attempts to change file/folder privileges to get the two accounts merged created a hopeless mess. I ended up copying the most essential stuff from my main user account onto a second internal drive (I had a religously maintained Mac Backup incremental backup, but somehow I'd set the parameters for what to copy so that most of what I needed to save was excluded from the backup - I think I screwed THAT up when creating the backup plan and configuring it so that I wouldn't copy my entire 1.25 Gbyte Entourage database twice a week). I was trying to do all this too quickly because my son wanted the G5 for some graphics intensive shoot-em-up and I wanted to start running from the Mac Pro. In the end, I erased the drive on the Mac Pro and reinstalled everything I could find. I lost quite a bit of "stuff", but none of it priceless or vital. Live and Learn! Jim Robertson -- -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
