Macintosh Manager: Unable to Connect to Volume During Transition From At Ease

During the transition from At Ease to Macintosh Manager, you may be unable to connect to the volume containing user documents and preferences. This article offers a solution.
Symptom

While going through the At Ease to Macintosh Manager transition, you receive an error stating that you cannot connect to the volume containing user documents and preferences. See Figures 1 and 2. Additionally, the volume name that appears in the error dialog box may not be one that was in the At Ease Access to Volumes list prior to the transition.



Figure 1 "Unable to Mount" dialog box



Figure 2 "An Error Occurred" dialog box

Solution

This article references the At Ease to Macintosh Manager Transition document. It is available from the Apple Software Updates Web site at http://www.apple.com/swupdates.

A faulty Setup Preferences file causes this error. Follow these steps to recover from this error and successfully transition from At Ease to Macintosh Manager:


At this point you should test each of your At Ease Workgroups by logging in as a user. If there are issues logging in, they must be resolved before At Ease can properly convert to Macintosh Manager.

Once these settings have been restored as they were previously, you can quit At Ease Admin and continue with Step 3 of the transition document.

Published Date: Feb 18, 2012