As we all get MacBook pro systems, we need to move out home directories back and forth. Here are my Chuck crib notes for the process.<\/p>\n
This is my process when I switch mac’s. Boot the old mac in target mode.<\/p>\n
Boot the new mac normally. Lets assume the account is ‘csev’.<\/p>\n
Make a new account other than csev. Make this account an administrator.<\/p>\n
Make a new csev account. Make the account an administrator.<\/p>\n
Logout and login as csev. Once csev has logged in once log out and then log in on the other administrator account.<\/p>\n
Start a terminal program .<\/p>\n
$ sudo sh
\nType your password for the non-csev account<\/p>\n
# cd \/Users
\n# mv csev csev.old<\/p>\n
Plug in the target computer – It should appear as a disk.<\/p>\n
# ls -l \/Volumes<\/p>\n
Make sure that you know the right volume that corresponds to your old disk – note that your new disk may be here too. If they are both Macintosh HD – there will be something that makes the mount point unique.<\/p>\n
# cd \/Volumes\/whatever\/Users
\n# ls -l
\n**** You should see csev<\/p>\n
Now comes the nifty bit.<\/p>\n
# tar cf – csev | ( cd \/Users ; tar xfv – )<\/p>\n
What this does is tar (no compression) up the directory from the target drive – send the output through a UNIX pipe, and then untar the files in the \/Users directory in the new system.<\/p>\n
Output will stream by. If you want to see the errors, remove the ‘v’ from the second tar. Don’t compress – (z option) it is a massive waste of time and CPU.<\/p>\n
Once the tar completes, do the folllowing<\/p>\n
# cd \/Users
\n# chown -R csev.csev csev
\nThis recursively sets the ownership of the files to the new account. Chown will complain about the -R option – ignore that.<\/p>\n
Update 2009:<\/b> They changed the syntax of the chown command in Mac OS\/X 10.5 and later:<\/p>\n
# chown -R csev:staff csev<\/p>\n
When complete – close the terminal window, log out and then log in to the csev account.<\/p>\n
Viola!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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