Changed Home Folder Name... Lost Everything? Help.

[Capt Underpants]

One of my friends just called me, saying he changed the name of his home folder, and after a restart, everything is gone.

I've never done this, and I don't know what to do to fix it. Quick googling has come up with nothing useful.

He's got an album that he just recorded, which isn't backed up, and so he's pretty distraught.

What should I tell him?

 

[edesignuk]

Has he looked in /Users ?

What's there?

The folder as it was called, or the folder as it was renamed?

Needless to say, you can't just change key folder names like this.

 

[iShater]

One of my friends just called me, saying he changed the name of his home folder, and after a restart, everything is gone.

I've never done this, and I don't know what to do to fix it. Quick googling has come up with nothing useful.

He's got an album that he just recorded, which isn't backed up, and so he's pretty distraught.

What should I tell him?

Change it back? I assume he should be able to still access that folder if he didn't delete it.

Not sure if a new homefolder gets auto created when the system doesn't find it.

 

[Capt Underpants]

He called Apple support and got it figured out.

Thanks for the quick responses. I appreciate it.

 

[JediMeister]

Apple has a publicly viewable article about how to rollback the changes: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1876