On my portable I have a local acct (administrator) and a MS acct (not administrator) users. I am the only user of this computer, a personal computer.I use the local acct 98% of the time. Is there a method to have the 2 accts synced(mirrored) so that MS acct has everything excactly the same as on the local acct?I suppose really that I should just merge the two accts to one MS acct as an adminstrator account (remove the local acct but need to retain the setup that is on the local acct) but have no idea how to do that. If the local account is the one where you have most of your personal data, this is how I would do it:. Sign in to your Microsoft account. Copy all documents, pictures and other personal data from Microsoft account's user folders to corresponding folders in user Public (contents of MS account Documents folder to Public Documents folder and so on). Sign out from Microsoft accountNotice that above steps are only required if Microsoft account user folders contain data you want to keep.
Personal Microsoft accounts and Office 365 work or school accounts cannot be merged, but they can be used side by side. Select from the options below for the best way to use personal and work or school account together. Merge office365 and live accounts that use the same email address I use both Azure/msdn and office 365 I already had an msdn account mvdl@our-company.com ( Windows Live account) and our company recently migrated to Office 365 which resulted in a mvdl@our-company.com Office365 account.
If its user folders are empty or do not contain anything worth saving, you can skip the above steps. Continue from below. Sign in to the local account. Delete the Microsoft account (Option One in ). Switch your local account to a Microsoft account.
Copy the data backed up from old Microsoft account to Public folders to new Microsoft account in corresponding foldersThat's it. Using the Public folders as temporary storage you will have none whatsoever file owner / permission issues later on.Kari. If the local account is the one where you have most of your personal data, this is how I would do it:. Sign in to your Microsoft account. Copy all documents, pictures and other personal data from Microsoft account's user folders to corresponding folders in user Public (contents of MS account Documents folder to Public Documents folder and so on). Sign out from Microsoft accountNotice that above steps are only required if Microsoft account user folders contain data you want to keep.
If its user folders are empty or do not contain anything worth saving, you can skip the above steps. Continue from below. Sign in to the local account. Delete the Microsoft account (Option One in ). Switch your local account to a Microsoft account.
Copy the data backed up from old Microsoft account to Public folders to new Microsoft account in corresponding foldersThat's it. Using the Public folders as temporary storage you will have none whatsoever file owner / permission issues later on.KariThank you. I will give it a try later today and post my results.Got to it sooner than I thought.Your method worked perfectly.Thank you.