Re: Can't Copy User Profile

If both machines are using the NTFS file system then the ACL security descriptors will be different for each Admin account. Your old Admin rights won't be recognised by your ACL information for your new profile, in essence your account doesn't have access to your old profile.

I've never used the Files & Settings Transfer Wizard (I'm not a fan of having my profile data shuffled around automatically) so I can't really comment on something I've never used.

As for your second method of copying manually, don't copy the old profile straight over your new profile, there are files in there containing all sorts of information that could screw things up royally. If it's just access to your files you want then do the following...

Go to your original profile and right click it. Select Properties and go to the Security tab. Click the Advanced button then remove the check from 'Inherit from parent the permissions...' and put a check in 'Replace permission entries on...' Now click the Owner tab. Select your current user account and put a check in the box 'Replace owner on subcontainers and objects', Apply it, OK it.

Now back at the Security tab make sure your current user account is listed, if not add it. Give yourself at least List Folder Contents and Read access before clicking Apply, then OK. You should now be able to access any folders within your old User Profile.

Of course, using this method means you will have to setup your themes, fonts, wallpaper etc. yourself again.

Mr C.

Brian laid this down on his screen :
Trying to copy my user profile from one computer to another and I'm having a problem. First I tried to copy the profile using Files and Settings Transfer Wizard. I was able to create the profile file on the network, but when I try and transfer it to the other computer, it stops with a "Has ancountered a problem and needs to close" dialog box.

So instead of that I tried to copy the profile directly. I logged in as another account with admin rights, but when I went to copy my profile, the "copy to" box is grayed out/disabled. The button is available for other profiles though. I found in my research that this could be caused by a program running under my logon authority, so I tried in safe mode and had the same problem.

I have admin rights on both computers, so I don't think its a security problem. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Thanks
Brian


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