[Bug 570786] Re: [Lucid] Migration Assistant combines all windows users into ONE user on Ubuntu and mixes all users files together.

[Jeff Lane]

No one cared, so marking invalid

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  [Lucid] Migration Assistant combines all windows users into ONE user
  on Ubuntu and mixes all users files together.

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  Did a dual boot install and migrated two users from my Windows XP
  install to the new Lucid install (amd64).

  In XP I had two users: Administrator and bladernr, and both of them
  had their own wall-paper, test documents in My Documents, pictures in
  My Pictures, and user pick.

  After install, however, there was only ONE user created who had and
  owned the documents from both Windows Users.

  The expectation is that if I migrate two users, I should get two
  users, not one who owns everything and then have to parcel out all
  user data to new Ubuntu users who have to be created by hand after
  install.

  This isn't so big a deal for my test system that has only 5 or 6 files
  between each user (each labled distinctly ilke "test_file_user1", but
  on a "real" migration where two users could easily have 1000 files or
  more between them, this is a nightmare.

  A brief discussion with ev gave me the back story on why m-a does not
  currently create separate user accounts, however I would like this re-
  visited for the next release cycle.

  Using my own home Windows system as an example, were I to peform the
  steps I just took during testing, I would then have to create a
  separate account for my wife, and then sort through nearly 100,000
  different files and try to figure out which ones belonged to which
  user ( the files are a mix of music, photographs, movies, text files,
  ebooks, etc).  That would most definitely make me a very unhappy new
  Ubuntu user.

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