[X4U] Copying User Accounts

[Fabian Fang]

On May 6, 2005, at 1:16 PM, P. H. Adams wrote:

> Looking for a bit of advice here. Been having some problems with  
> the HD on my iMac that I think a good reformatting may cure (file  
> system corruption; did a surface scan and it came out good). I used  
> my PB to put a fresh install of Tiger on an external FW drive and  
> used that to boot the iMac from. It all looks good, but now I want  
> to get my data off the iMac drive and onto the external. Ideally,  
> what I'd like to do is clone the user accounts to the external so  
> that, in case something goes awry with the reformatting, I have all  
> my user accounts available on the FW drive. I'm unsure of how to  
> get the fresh OS to recognize the 3 user accounts, though. I could  
> just create new accounts and copy the data,  but is there anyway to  
> just copy them over intact? Also, once I get the drive reformatted  
> and everything reinstalled, I'll need to copy them back over to the  
> iMac drive. I may just be able to use CCC for this, and copy the  
> whole kit and kaboodle. Anyone have any advice for the best way to  
> proceed? Thanks much!

Carbon Copy Cloner 2.3 was released in late 2003, and does not work  
under Tiger.  A fix is in the works.  However, you can use SuperDuper  
1.5.5(74), which supports Tiger.  I like SuperDuper a little better  
anyway.

Fabian