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Friend's Powerbook
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Portland, OR
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I bought a friend's powerbook a while back and have it all set up with my stuff, i was dumb and didn't do a complete reinstall when i got it. now i am tired of seeing his name pop up for different things like keychain. is there any way to do a complete switch over so it is fully mine?
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: MacNN database error. Please refresh your browser.
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This is a computer-generated message and needs no signature.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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Launch Keychain Access and rename the keychain. Rinse and repeat for all other annoying references.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Can't he just create a new user, copy his stuff across and delete the old one?
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Baninated
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Illinois might be cold and flat, but at least it's ugly.
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Erase and do a Clean Install. Why didn't you do this in the first place? Did he leave programs on it that you wouldn't have otherwise?...
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Portland, OR
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it was actually a friend of mine who did this and he gave it to me to fix up. i think i just have about everything fixed but he was complaining about the keychain and a few other minor things.
He is no mac knower, just a mac user.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: 888500128
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Originally Posted by ShotgunEd
Can't he just create a new user, copy his stuff across and delete the old one?
If he copies his keychain across, he'll have the problem.
Also, that won't take care of root/sudo passwords, including the login.keychain, AFAIK.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Oct 2004
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You can reset the root password with the install CD.
Someone setup my Mac for me and it had an awkward short name so I just made a new admin and deleted the old one. I did it early on so I didn't have settings to mess with.
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