<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Fred Stevens K2FRD wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>Larry, dumb question: Since I'm the only user but have a separate ID ("Fred Stevens") under Mac HD -> Users -> Fred Stevens (as opposed to "Users -> Shared", how would I boot to single user mode (as opposed to Shared [or "Computer]?).<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Single user mode is actually like "safe mode" on a Dozebox -- it's a command-line startup mode for debugging and repair purposes. To enter it, reboot and hold down Cmd-S until you see text scrolling down a black background. It leaves your boot drive mounted read-only, so you can safely run fsck to (we hope) fix the drive. You can also use a magic command "mount -w /" to allow writing to the drive -- that allows you to, say, delete hosed preference files that are messing up the boot process.... </DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>... my second installation last month forced me to do the same thing, so I still have separate libraries, fonts, and several other things for Computer and User Fred Stevens.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>You can copy stuff over from the old user -- you might have to log in as that user (Fast Switching is nice for this), copy things to Shared, then move them to the right place afterwards. Once you're sure you have everything, you can delete the old user directories.</DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">--</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Larry Kollar<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN>k<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN>o<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN>l<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN>l<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN>a<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN>r<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN>@<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN>a<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN>l<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN>l<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN>t<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN>e<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN>l<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN>.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN>n<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN>e<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN>t</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival"</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><A href="http://unixtext.org">http://unixtext.org</A>/</FONT></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>