At Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:13:33 -0800, Clark Martin wrote:
At 7:59 PM -0500 11/28/04, Al Poulin wrote:
Now I want to copy or move the e-mail and the Bookmarks to a new user account. Is this feasible and safe? From rummaging around, it appears to be a simple procedure to drag and drop what I want from the Admin account to the new user account.
First question, do you really need to move these to a user account? You could create a new admin user and then change this user to a non-admin account and just use it as a user.
Clark, thank you for showing me this alternative, very appealing. I've looked in David Pogue's Missing Manual book and see how I can do that. The only wrinkle is that the "short" name of the Admin account does not match the intended "user" which I want to be a joint thing between me and my wife. It seems that I can create the new Admin account, also a new user account with the short name that works for us. But then can I kill/delete the original Admin account?, as long as you have one ADmin account
Sure, you can always kill an account
For e-mail, I could move or copy either the entire Mail folder or its individual contents. The first alternative would be:
Log in as Admin, use Finder's Icon View: Go to /Admin User's Home/Library/Mail , duplicate the contents of the Mail folder.
Do an option-Drag of the Mail folder icon to the Drop box and drop it on the drop box. This will eliminate the copy step and the copy suffix.
So, will option-Drag take the Mail folder "out" of the Admin account?
No, an option-Drag makes a copy.
And will the Mail folder actually remain in its present location(s) on the hard drive? That is, there is not a new copy.
I am in digest mode on this list, hence the slow response. I held off coming to this list for my original post this subject because I missed getting a bunch of digests amidst a bunch of bounces. I hope we get a complete cycle again.
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