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After reinstalling Vista on a friend's laptop, I got a call because I copied her files into the admin's My Documents instead of her non-admin account, so she can't see the folder when she's logged on as non-admin like I advised her to do.
She has little computer skills: What is the simplest way to move data from the admin to the non-admin account so she has full access to them once she's logged as non-admin?
Thank you.
Thanks much. I thought about this, but wanted to make sure there weren't a way to automate it. I'll send her the instructions. Alternativately, Vista has apparently introduced "Windows Easy Transfer", but I don't know how well it works to move data from one account to another. – OverTheRainbow – 2012-02-20T16:34:36.547
The important part is setting the permissions. It's also the hard or complicated part. Most transfer utilities do not change permissions, especially from Admin to User level. Windows Easy Transfer is for backing up or transferring data from one computer to another and has built in capabilities of copying the user accounts as well. It will not work to copy locally and reset permissions. – music2myear – 2012-02-20T16:42:05.787
Some articles on the web seem to say that it can also be used to transfer between accounts on the same computer, although it's mostly used to move from an old computer to a new computer. I'll take some screenhots so, hopefully, she can figure out how to move the folder per the instructions above. – OverTheRainbow – 2012-02-20T16:46:48.530