[m021478]

I am now having more problems than I can handle with my Leopard installation...problems such as applications that refuse quit no matter what ~ even after attempting force quit them and/or attempting to "sudo kill -9 PID", and now that I am having problems with Adobe Lightroom not even being able to remain open on my user account for more than 10 seconds max before it crashes without provocation (yet runs fine on a troubleshooting account I created on the same machine), I would now like to create a new user account on my MacPro Leopard 10.5.6 and transfer my files from the previous (problematic) user account, but I've never done so in the past...

Can someone give me a basic rundown of how to go about doing this as a means of troubleshooting my current sickly user account (and if you could also please let me know which files I should avoid restoring to the newly created user account so that I don't screw that one up as well, I would appreciate it)

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated... Thanks!

[Cold Warrior]

What kinds of things do you want to transfer? If it's just documents and media files, it's easy to just move them into the new user's Public folder.

For troubleshooting a sick login account, do what you plan on doing: create a new one. However, I'd try using it first to see if that one beachballs without any of your previous account's stuff.

If the new account doesn't work out, the next step is to do an archive-install of your operating system. It's quick and easy and resolves many common problems.

Have you installed anything in InputManagers, any kext files, or any resent software/hardware?