Windows 10: I have an old user account that I can no longer access and need help transferring to my new...

I have an old user account on my PC that I can no longer access. It has about 20 GB of data that I need to transfer to my new user account. The "Copy To" feature is grayed out on the User Profiles page. I also tried the copy and paste method by clicking the individual folders underthe old user account without any success. This happened after I disconnected from an Access School or Work account and didn't backup my filesI know, stupid mistake, but I didn't realize that the Hard Drive was siloed for each user account. I don't share my PC with anyone else. Using Windows 10 ProAny suggestions? Am

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I have an old user account that I can no longer access and need help transferring to my new account.

I have an old user account on my PC that I can no longer access. It has about 20 GB of data that I need to transfer to my new user account.

The "Copy To" feature is grayed out on the User Profiles page. I also tried the copy and paste method by clicking the individual folders under

the old user account without any success. This happened after I disconnected from an Access School or Work account and didn't backup my files

I know, stupid mistake, but I didn't realize that the Hard Drive was siloed for each user account. I don't share my PC with anyone else. Using Windows 10 Pro

Any suggestions? Am I SOL?

 

How to give new user access to old user's apps

My wife used to work from home on her PC. She no longer works at the company but always logs in using the same login she used at the time. She wants to create a new user account on the PC now that it's her personal PC, but still wants access to her Office apps and other data she used to keep associated with her business account.

How do I delete the old business account and create a new user account that has access to all the apps and files that the old business account had access to?

Thanks for any insights or suggestions!

 

Is there an easy way to transfer account information to a new account

It's not a common issue, and transferring your files to a new user account is easy.

You can transfer all your personal folders, namely:

• desktop (see below,)
• documents,
• music,
• pictures, and
• video.

What you see on your desktop is actually a combination of three things:

• the contents of your user account's desktop folder;
• the contents of the Public account's desktop folder; and
• Windows system objects, like the Recycle Bin.

The key to doing this successfully is understanding that your personal files belong to the user account where they are
now. Your new user account is completely separate. You know that both the old and the new user account are yours, but Windows doesn't know that, and that's by design.

The new user account needs to take possession of the files from your old user account, so those files will belong to the new user account. Once you understand this, the rest is easy. I'll give you a summary of the steps below. There's more than one way to
do this, but this method is easy:

1- Sign in to a user account with Administrator permissions.

2- Navigate to C:\Users\Public

The contents of the Public account are available to every other user account on the computer.

3- Create a new folder in C:\Users\Public

4- Navigate to your old user account and copy the folders described above to the new folder you created under the Public folder.

As soon as you try to open a folder in your 'old' user account, Windows will ask if you want to have permission to access that folder. The real question it's asking is: Do you want the Administrator account to have the same access to this folder as your
old account has? And the answer is yes, of course. Your old user account can move those folders anywhere it likes, and now your Administrator account can do that too.

5- As a precaution, try to open some of the files that you moved to the Public account, just to make sure everything transferred correctly.

6- Create a new user account.

7- Sign out of the Administrator account and sign in to your new user account.

8- Move the contents of the folders you copied to the Public account to the corresponding folders in your new account.

9- As a precaution, try to open some of the files that you moved to the new user account, just to make sure everything transferred correctly.

Now you can erase the folders from the Public account and delete the old user account.