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Export/import account while preserving its account ID?
Is there a way to backup a user account into a file, then later restore it
into another PC so that its account ID is preserved? By account ID, I meant something like `S-1-2-34-1234567890-1234567890-1234567890-1234`. If possible, only the account object. Not including the account's files which are it its profile folder. |
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Export/import account while preserving its account ID?
On 31-12-2018 8:17, JJ wrote:
Is there a way to backup a user account into a file, then later restore it into another PC so that its account ID is preserved? By account ID, I meant something like `S-1-2-34-1234567890-1234567890-1234567890-1234`. If possible, only the account object. Not including the account's files which are it its profile folder. Try a zip file , store that on an external drive/stick. .. |
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Export/import account while preserving its account ID?
Sjouke Burry wrote:
On 31-12-2018 8:17, JJ wrote: Is there a way to backup a user account into a file, then later restore it into another PC so that its account ID is preserved? By account ID, I meant something like `S-1-2-34-1234567890-1234567890-1234567890-1234`. If possible, only the account object. Not including the account's files which are it its profile folder. Try a zip file , store that on an external drive/stick. . I'm not sure its account ID is practical to preserve. Each OS installation has a custom set of the 1234567890 triplet. So if you preserved the number exactly as in your example, it would look to the new OS as a "foreign" kind of thing. The four digit number on the end, is the actual account number. Administrator is 500. User accounts start at 1000 and go up. On some installs, the first user might not always be 1000, and it could be 1001 or 1002 and so on. It's not a given that every installed OS uses 1000 for (what the user assumes) is the very first account. It's possible a video card driver installation, might call for its own account for example. A SID is a SID, and in theory, two strings of numbers could "co-exist". But I bet the OS compares the triplet parts, and it would treat a foreign one like it was a "Guest" or something. There's no reason to "trust" an account that came from somewhere else. If a tool transfers stuff instead, there's probably some sort of ceremony where the number string gets changed. Sorta like a newuser() call, followed by a lot of copying and registry-correcting. ******* If you look at this article, it might seem like you could cook up a Win7 to Win7 solution, but I really wonder in the end, what aspects of the transfer actually work. The number of "if-then-else" constructs in this article is troubling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Easy_Transfer Make a backup of the destination drive, so that if the attempt fails, you can easily clean up and restore things to normal. Paul |
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