Let's say I have 2 account, account A & B. I don't want to use account A anymore, yet I still want to retain all the files. I want to move account A's belongings to account B. How do I do that?
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If you don't care about already existing application settings of account B, you can copy the contents of /home/accounta with all hidden files and overwrite everything in /home/accountb, I guess. You can simply do that in a terminal: sudo cp -R /home/accounta/* /home/accountb/.
Else you'd have to sort everything by hand. I'd recommend to create a new folder in Account A (While being logged into Account A) and moving everything you need there. To see hidden files in Nautilus go to (no free translating) Edit→Settings→[ ] Show hidden files and backups and tick it. Then move it as above: sudo cp -R /home/accounta/new\ folder/* /home/accountb/.
Lastly, I think, you will have to take care of some file ownerships. I think that can be done only by executing sudo chown -R accountb /home/accountb && sudo chgroup -R accountb /home/accountb.
DISCLAIMER: I didn't look up any of this. To be sure, at least try every command without sudo and look for syntax errors etc.!
Peter Nerlich
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