One of macOS’s most beneficial features—and its biggest change from pre-OS X versions of macOS—is allowing multiple users to have unique accounts on the same computer. Sometimes, however, you might decide only after creating and using an account for a while that you might want it split into two or more macOS logins.
Perhaps you have an account in which you mixed personal and business purposes and decided that needed to be separated out. Or you had a single account for your family, and in the interests of privacy and home comity, you wanted to split those out.
Apple doesn’t have a “split account” option, as it’s perhaps a rare thing its users would want. But it’s not that difficult in the end. In my examples below, I consider turning one account into two, but you could also split one into three or more with the same principles.
Start with these considerations:
If you have a relatively small amount of material to move or it’s almost all in the cloud, here’s how I suggest proceeding.
Start with a new user account:
Now from your existing account:
You can now log in to the new account and move those items into that account’s home directory in appropriate locations.
For any cloud-based accounts, log in with the appropriate software, via the Apple ID or iCloud preference pane, or the Internet Accounts preference pane.
If you have quite a lot to copy, I suggest a more complicated approach that works out easier in the end: duplicating the account entirely.
Now you can:
Once complete, choose > Log Out [account name] and log in to your new account. Perform the same operations in reverse for it, removing material and accounts unique to your existing account and adding ones needed for the new account.
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