skierguy Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 I just installed a new 1.5tb drive in my computer and now I would like to move my user data over to this drive as my 500gb drive with leopard 10.5.8 is running out of space. I found that to do this one needs to right click on the user and then change the location in System Prefs->Accounts. I pointed to the new user folder with the cloned data on the new drive. Then I restarted. When I booted up again, leopard had created a folder in Volumes with the name of the Data volume that I had moved my user data to so now there was a new user folder in the Volumes folder so that when I go into my User folder in leopard I am pointed to the folder in Volumes, not the folder on the Data volume. Now the Data volume was mounted as "Data 1". Now I tried changing it to point to Data 1 but now I can't log in "Logging into the account failed because an error occurred"... Any ideas how I get this working like I intend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacUser2525 Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 I just installed a new 1.5tb drive in my computer and now I would like to move my user data over to this drive as my 500gb drive with leopard 10.5.8 is running out of space. I found that to do this one needs to right click on the user and then change the location in System Prefs->Accounts. I pointed to the new user folder with the cloned data on the new drive. Then I restarted. When I booted up again, leopard had created a folder in Volumes with the name of the Data volume that I had moved my user data to so now there was a new user folder in the Volumes folder so that when I go into my User folder in leopard I am pointed to the folder in Volumes, not the folder on the Data volume. Now the Data volume was mounted as "Data 1". Now I tried changing it to point to Data 1 but now I can't log in "Logging into the account failed because an error occurred"... Any ideas how I get this working like I intend? Well when I did it I had to make sure that I deleted the old folder for my account in the Users directory or it would not work properly, I also created a new partition for my moved account so it was the only directory except for the Shared one on/in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skierguy Posted August 24, 2009 Author Share Posted August 24, 2009 Hmm, that didn't work for me in the end what I did was go rm /private/var/db/.AppleSetupDone in single user mode and then leopard allowed me to create a new admin account and then I could fix everything up again from that account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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