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Hi,

Im having problems copying a user profile over to another user. The user in question doesnt have the 'COPY TO' button available ( its greyed out ) in her local profile. We dont use roaming profiles. Im viewing it with the administrators account and all of the profiles are local administrators. I am able to copy over some of the others should I wish.

Any ideas please? Its causing me a major hassle.

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amyamandaallen wrote:

Hi,

Im having problems copying a user profile over to another user. The user in question doesnt have the 'COPY TO' button available ( its greyed out ) in her local profile. We dont use roaming profiles. Im viewing it with the administrators account and all of the profiles are local administrators. I am able to copy over some of the others should I wish.

Any ideas please? Its causing me a major hassle.

You are not logged into the account you want to copy right?
Cause Im pretty sure you cannot do that.
Is it an Administrators profile?

sprkymrk

Have you tried simply rebooting the computer? If a profile wasn't fully unloaded you can't delete or copy it.

amyamandaallen

Im logged on as the administrator, trying to copy another admins profile onto another admins profile

Interesting idea about the unloaded profile - I'll try it.

blargoe

Reboot, the profile probably isn't fully unloaded as sprky said

RussS

Are you trying to copy the whole profile?

amyamandaallen

yes

as it contains some vital connection info that we cant reproduce and that users no longer works there.

RussS

'k - the best way to copy an entire profile is to boot to something like the UBCD or BartCD and then use one of the file managers there to do the copy. Personally I use BartCD.
When booted to the OS on the drive (even in a different profile) you will likely get fails on NTUser.dat and a few other files.