And in order to transfer the old user files I booted into the "old" High Sierra setup, and from my old user account copied my files over to my new account's "Public" folder. So now I've completely reinstalled High Sierra (on a different SSD), then created new users as well. One of them is from a different 10.13 High Sierra installation and I've been messing with permission changes back and forth because of problems, then probably making things worse because I didn't know what to do Yes, a couple of home folders yield very strange result. Obviously it would be a lot of work to compare every folder and sub-folder for a user, but it's good to know what to do when you want to check one or two. I just thought you might be interested in a more detailed comparison of the copying methods.Ĭlick to expand.Ah! Yes, visually comparing folders is a good idea. OTOH, if what you've done works when you log into the accounts, it might be good enough. If I wanted the most exact copy, I would want to see the POSIX permissions and ACLs and owner and group names all be the same between the original source and the copy. Perhaps that's one you copied over in some manner? If this is supposed to be the home dir for a user named 'justin' I think that will cause permission problems. So looking again at your output's last line, you can see that a home directory called 'justin' is owned by a user named 'john'. I don't know any other way of examining ACLs on a stock system (although I think the "Tinker Tool System" program has a GUI for them).
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