However, even when you change the name, the folder name of your user profile remains the same. System services dont usually have fixed user ids, and if youve installed the packages in a different order to the original machine which is very likely if. Go into registry and delete the user profile s subfolder under hklm\ software \microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\profilelist on the right side of registry editor under the data column itll show the user s name. Jun 03, 2010 if you already have the need to create a default user profile in windows 7 and you tried to use the well known procedure that was working successfully in previous version of windows, you might have issues by finding the copy to button being grayed out. The profile you customized now resides in the default profile location c. Based on mike andersons script, i made one that asks questions about the new user, the old user, the new password, and then copies the old user s home directory and replaces all instances of the old user s name in the new home directory with the new user s name. Is there a way to copy one profile to another in windows 10. How to find thunderbird profile folder directory path in mac. They wouldnt have the file you copied to everyones profile individually. Why not just use the all users profile instead of copying it to every user profile on the computer. Windows 7 only allows its builtin profile copying utility to be used to copy the default profile, not profiles of other user accounts. I am trying to write a batch file that would automate a process for our business. Solved copy a users profilesettings to a new computer.
Move or migrate user accounts from old linux server to a. I have been successful in writing the code to name the file and create the sub folders. Now, click on the disabled button and it will become enabled thanks to win enabler application, as you can see in the picture below. How to log into windows 7 if you forgot your password without cd or software. Ive paired a script with psexec and can get it to copy from a file server source to the destination hostname. If you cant copy the file due to permissions, then you can try this. How to copy existing user profile to a new user profile in. How to move, copy files from one user account to another. To find out where your user profile is located in libreoffice for linux, open any of the libreoffice programs and go to tools options. To get the perf command, install linuxtoolscommon on ubuntu, linuxbase on debian, perfutils on archlinux, or perf on fedora. The simple answer to that is, kernel developers do not put blind faith in anything. Several months ago, i wrote an article on how to backup your linux home. I then want to be able to give the user a command which refreshes their user profile so that any new files created under their session are assigned to the new group.
Copying user profile to flash drive stack overflow. Open system applet in control panel or rightclick my computer and choose properties. In the actions column for the source user, click more. It is very simple to open thunderbird profile directory in linux. The linux kernel has recently implemented a very useful perf infrastructure for profiling various cpu and software events. How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a. Be careful that you dont delete or renumber system accounts when copying over the files mentioned in the other answers. Jul 16, 2012 you can copy the program to the network and run it on any xp machine. Click on the desired profile and you will notice that copy to button is disabled. Linux one of the most common tasks i face is copying profile data among computers, in both windows and linux. Copy the customized profile folder using the windows profile copying utility. Back up and restore information in firefox profiles. Linux is a multiuser, time sharing system, implying that more than one user can log in and use a system. How to xcopy user profiles solutions experts exchange.
Jul 10, 2018 are people using the copy profile in the unattend. Everyone knows that you can use create user username identified by password to create a new user. Robocopy script to copy user profiles solutions experts. The root user can use this script to set aliases, functions, and variables for every user on the system. Usually, this is not a problem, but if youve scriptsprogramssettings relaying on the userid, you should make sure that the user. One thing happened while registering is i entered loginroot and its password. However, since im running as an admin account it will only copy to that c. And system administrators have the task of managing various aspects of how different users can operate a system in terms of installingupdatingremoving software, programs they can run, files they can viewedit and so on. How to easily migrate local users and groups from one system to another system.
When reading this script, you will notice both on debian and on red hat enterprise linux that it builds the path environment variable among others. Copy out users profile and settings to an external folder on windows 7, join a domain, import the users profile and settings on the same computer while assigning the new domain username on windows 7. Copy out a users profile and settings to an external or local folder as a single file windows 7xp 2. Click on the menu button, then go to help and select troubleshooting information. Its very flexible in that you can choose specific users to transfer, then add additional folders you want transferred. May 31, 2012 copying user profile data, windows vs. Is there any way to just copy some files to another user s profile and have all this stuff already configured. The gimp profile is a directoryfolder actually a directory tree where gimp keeps. As with windows xp, you can not set the profile you are logged in as default, because some files are in use and can not be copied. How to easily migrate local users and groups from one system to.
I then set up a profile for my wife and would like to copy my profile over for her to forgo having to reload all the dataprograms again in her profile. How do i move or migrate user accounts to from old linux server a new cent os linux server including mails. You can copy the program to the network and run it on any xp machine. Oct 15, 2017 how to transfer files between users accounts windows 10. You can then copy your addons subdirectories to the new profile, checking.
Make sure you click on it once to enable the application. User settings are stored in the home folder by design. We are trying to write a batch file on a thumb drive. The etcprofile file it stores systemwide environment configurations and startup programs for login setup. It will just skip the problematic file from copying and copy the next files. When i log in, the desktop looks like a brand new user profile and not the customized profile that i copied. Therefore it is possible to tweak a desktop to perfection and copy it as the default, when creating new accounts. You should never ever create any new system user accounts on the newly installed cent os linux.
How to fix copyandpaste not working issue in windows make. How to copy files to new user profile microsoft community. Currently i need to set the same settings for each user. Both the bash and the ksh shell will verify the existence of etc profile and source it if it exists. Creating a custom default profile on windows 10 1803. What most people dont know is that you can actually copy the password of a user from one.
How come you dont just have them log in to that server, creating them a profile and then just copying the contents of the profile from the old server to the profile on the new server joestramandinoli. That way, you get selfhealingrepair for the file, rather than the oneoff execution. Go into registry and delete the user profiles subfolder under hklm\software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\profilelist on the right side of registry editor under the data column itll show the users name. You can use the search feature to find a user searching for entries using name, description, and name or description. How to migrate user settings and data to new machine. Simply open the linux file browser window and open the folder named thunderbird inside the home, and go to the thunderbird profile you need.
How to move, copy files from one user account to another user. Creating a custom default profile on windows 10 1803 james. Im not sure how robust that is though, and id recommend you go for option 1. You must login with another user account with administrator privileges. This procedure allows you to copy user accounts from one instance to another with the same password, grants, roles, etc, without using the expimp tools. In the perform an action page, click copy this users profile. Libreoffice developers might ask for a copy of your user profile for debugging. It can copy both single or multiple files or folders. Normally, the basic method of working with a linux system is the shell, and the shell creates an environment depending on certain files it reads during its initialization after a successful user login. To move your data, copy your profile folder to the equivalent location on your destination computer. Thunderbird stores your data in a separate location, away from the program files application, called your profile folder. How to fix copyandpaste not working issue in windows. I think you have some issue when you define this function. Understanding shell initialization files and user profiles.
Moving thunderbird data to a new computer thunderbird help. Now you need to create a new user profile and copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile to let it work normally. How do i copy a filefolder from another users home directory in. Understanding shell initialization files and user profiles in. We want to plug the thumb drive in and copy the users documents,favorites,pictures,etc.
Profile file from user1 homedirectoryto user2 homedirectory in aix. Both the bash and the ksh shell will verify the existence of etcprofile and source it if it exists. I went to advanced system settings and saw the different profiles there but the only one the copy to box works on is the default. Hi, i know i can use xcopy function to copy user profile from c. It will copy the content of the specified user profile name into the default user folder. Move or migrate user accounts from old linux server to a new linux. How to move, copy pictures, dokuments, files from one windows user account to another windows user account. Click the firefox menu at the top of the screen and select quit firefox.
This is also useful if you continue reading move or migrate user accounts from old linux server to a new linux server. How to configure the windows default user profile apache. How to copy files to a new user profile in windows 7. Youre obviously dealing with an oracle product which has to have at least one advertised entrypoint. The theme, where the docks are located and configured, desktop icons, firefox favorites, etc. Copy clone user account, so that both users have the very same settings in their user home directory.
I wrote the character device driver with some example about data transfer between kernel space and user space. Afterwards, youll probably have to do chown the whole copied directory recursively, so that all the contents are owned by the proper user. Copying files between users the unix and linux forums. To back up your profile, first close firefox if it is open and then copy the profile folder to another location. Click the firefox menu at the top of the screen and. Having parts of the user data on a share and parts of it locally either means mounting, for example, homeuserdocuments over nfs again or using one filesystem to lay over another one. That said, generic data related to my user account and program data still sit.
I am unable to copy music files to desktop and home directory. Libreoffice user profile the document foundation wiki. In mepis control centre, it is possible to generate one profile and copy this profile to many other profiles. Displays the copy progress indicator, with estimated time, current file speed etc. Linux also allows users environments to be created or maintained in two major ways. You can set up a new user profile and see if it helps. For libreoffice vanilla provided by collabora at the app store check. Jan 20, 2017 now, you can go to your user profile folder in finder and back it up to an external drive, network drive, or cloud service.
Understanding shell initialization files and user profiles in linux. I dont need mirroring or anything like that, it would be just a one time backup. You can migrate users from old linux server to new linux sever with standard commands such as tar, awk, scp and others. In the copy the user profile page, click select the target user and navigate to find the. How to copy a file to user profiles for win 7 and xp machines. Corrupted user profiles may cause the copy andpaste function not to work in windows. So, we can easily find which files have been successfully. But for any reasons, your user profile service failed the logon or the profile is corrupted. The all users profile would be just the one profile and that of course would be easy to do. Hklm\ software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\profilelist. I would like them to use one profile with specific settings like. For the presentation purpose we will copy the profile from nik user. Aug 14, 2019 for my example, im going to back up the data file contents of my user profile folder, c. Im looking for the one the is for each user so when i login as guest i can have the date displayed and other stuff, but when i login as darrell maybe the cal command is displayed you know.
Believe i have a corrupt user profile as newly installed apps not appearing in desktop programs menu, so decided to create two new profiles one. Back up and restore information in firefox profiles firefox. Simply place the entire users profile folder under the home filesystem, and as long as its name matches the username, it will be picked up and used. Edit etcpasswd and duplicate the line of the user you want an exact copy of. I am new user to solaris and installed solaris operating system on full harddisk 120gb. Apr 21, 2017 linux is a multi user, time sharing system, implying that more than one user can log in and use a system. Shell profile used by linux and mac os x terminal programs. Copy files to new user profile step 2 of to copy files to the new user profile states doubleclick users, doubleclick the folder with the name of your account. It is the personal initialization file, executed for login shells. When any data is passed to the kernel space from userspace, it is the responsibility of the kernel developer to make sure that everything is sanitized.
Based on mike andersons script, i made one that asks questions about the new user, the old user, the new password, and then copies the old users home directory and replaces all instances of the old users name in the new home directory with the new users name. How to find your libreoffice profile folder in windows, macos. Hklm\software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\profilelist. In this article, i detail the steps of how to create a new user profile and how to copy data from a user profile in windows 7. What happens when a new person logs onto the computer. Im looking to create a script that i can schedule on a few machines that will copy an entire users profile to a shared folder. Therefore, you should be building a user feature which contains the file destined for the user profile and then making the feature which contains the advertised entrypoint a child of yoiur new feature. Modify the logon name, real name and the home directory. You know, rightclick computer, click properties, click advanced system settings, go under user profiles\settings and copy the profile that way.
And system administrators have the task of managing various aspects of how different users can operate a system in terms of installingupdatingremoving software, programs they can run, files they can viewedit and so on linux also allows users environments to be created or maintained. As an administrator, i want to copy the contents of desktop, my documents, start menu and other such settings and preferences. Edit etcshadow and again duplicate the line of the original user. With this approach, you should test and see if such copying is both enough and not too much that no private information got copied etc. If you dont have permission, then you cant copy the file.