[OT] Recover Files From OS X User Account

[Ian Wood]

If you enable the Root user on your external HD and login as Root you  
can access any user folder on any connected drive. Although I'm not  
sure what problems you might have with permissions on the files after  
they have been copied somewhere else.

Brian's suggestion of Knoppix is definitely worth looking into.

Ian

On 11 Sep 2009, at 10:57, Scott Rossi wrote:

> I get that user accounts are normally inaccessible unless one is  
> logged in
> as that user, but I'm hoping someone might know of a utility or  
> process to
> be able to extract files from these kind of accounts and "de- 
> protect" them
> based on the login information (or if this is even possible).