10.4: Move a FileVault home directory between Macs

I wanted to add the user of a different Mac to my new Mac by copying his home directory to the new Mac. I like to use FileVault for home directories, and the user has a FileVault directory on the original Mac, so I thought I could do this:Create a new user on the new Mac, with same username, password, and short name.Set up FileVault on the new location for the user.Copy the sparseimage file from the original Mac to the new home directory.Well, yes and no. When I tried to log in as the user on the new Mac, I kept getting the error: 'Home folder for user "Some User" cannot be found in the usual place,' where "Some User" was the user's username on the new Mac.I tried to fiddle with the permissions (setting ownership of the directory of the user to the user, chmod 777, emptying ~/Library/Caches, all sorts of things), but couldn't get it to work. T...
Thu, 03 May 2007 16:30:00 +0200

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