osx86 migrating user account
January 04, 2009
I keep my main user account on a seperate partition. To get it back on a new osx installation I have to do …
Before you do any of this make sure you’ve tested the installation
Get Account Back
| In System Preferences | Accounts |
- create a new admin account with user name Andrew Premdas
- right click on account to select ‘advanced options’
- change home directory to /Volumes/users/andy
- disable automatic login, or set it to new account
Account Functionality
Not enough to get the account back, want to get it working as before - lots to do here.
Terminal Colors
These depend on SIMBL plugin, what I did was to copy relevant files from previous working distribution to same location in new distribution. Most of the files I keep in my account, however the following have to be in the system to work
/Library/InputManagers ...
So as root you need to copy them from an old system to the new one e.g.
sudo cp -R /Volumes/Kalway/Library/InputManagers /Library