Cant find anything (help!) - I'm stupid.

[MyLeftNut]

Hello all,

I did something I dont think I should have done. I attempted to rename the username of the home folder through Finder and now everything has gone missing. Stupid thing to do...now I cant find anything and all the settings and prefs are wrong. Basically, I dont know how to fix it...can anyone help?

Dont worry. Its fixed. Can this post be deleted by the mods please? Sorry.

 

[mad jew]

Glad to hear it.

Just for future reference, how'd you fix it?

 

[efoto]

I'm not exactly sure why you would change that, but since you did and OSX freaked out...what did you do to change it back?

I would believe it could possibly be as easy as renaming it back and making sure the apps point to the right folder...but I would be interested to hear as well.

 

[MyLeftNut]

Hi guys,

Well OSX basically creates a new username folder with the incorrect name that I tried to change and attaches the Desktop folder and the library folder to it. I dont know why. I simply dragged all the folders that went missing to the user directory with my original name on it and did a restart. This worked fine...serves me right for fiddling with things...