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  1. Jodeo

    HELP: Restoring Mac w/home folder back-up only

    A family member (who lives elsewhere) got their personal MacBook Air back from Apple Support with the hard drive wiped (as expected). They only have a cloud back-up of their home directory (user / (name) / {Documents | Downloads | Photos | etc.}. This was the admin account (no other users)...
  2. V

    Unknown files appeared in Home folder - see screengrabs

    Opening my home folder this morning and found a load of greyed out unknown files with weird names and dates. Also my Library and Trash folder is greyed out although I can open them. Please can anyone tell me what they are and how to get rid of them. See screengrabs attached. Many thanks.
  3. M

    Relocated Home directory to exFAT partition => Skype freezes

    Do you have a fix for this particular scenario: 1) Two partitions boot drive, the second one formatted exFAT 2) Relocate Home directory to Partition2 using the default way: System Preferences -> Users & Groups -> Advanced Options -> Home directory 3) Install Skype 4) At first launch Skype...
    • mariusmbp
    • Thread
    • directory folder freezes home home directory home folder os x partition relocate relocated skype users
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: macOS
  4. EasonYang438

    Convert network account to local user account

    Hi, I am planning on moving network account home directory into my local computer user account. Before I am doing this, I backed up everything and read a article of converting local user account to network account https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202506 I want to do it opposite way. What is...
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