Help!! (Changed User Name)

[Mirai 11]

a few minutes ago i just changed the name of my user on the finder screen, the one with the house icon, i restart, and everything is as shown like when i first bought it, yet the size available and used is the same, but everything, and i mean everything, pictures, movies, personal information etc is gone, so it must still be there
how the hell do i get it back to the way it was before?
thanks

 

[wyatt23]

a few minutes ago i just changed the name of my user on the finder screen, the one with the house icon, i restart, and everything is as shown like when i first bought it, yet the size available and used is the same, but everything, and i mean everything, pictures, movies, personal information etc is gone, so it must still be there
how the hell do i get it back to the way it was before?
thanks

see if you can browse your filesystem through the terminal.


i think /Volumes/ would be a good place to look first. tho i can't be positive. i'm at work on a windows box. but if you can just 'ls' and 'cd' around for a little bit, i'm sure you'll find out where it is. once you do... give terminal a little 'pwd' and you'll be fine.

none of these commands (if you aren't familiar) will hurt your computer in anyway, so go get some hands dirty using terminal. good luck.

 

[barr08]

I know this sounds silly, this kind of stuff isn't exactly my forte, but the first thing I would try is renaming the folder back to the original name and restarting.

 

[Mirai 11]

when i click on macintosh HD and users, there's the user folder im on now, with the home icon, and another folder, which has ALL the files, music etc that i had before, so how do i overwrite it? or can i sumhow delete the user im on now and revert it back to how it was half an hour ago?

 

[gr8tfly]

Try changing it back. Your user folder is tied to your account.

http://guides.macrumors.com/Renaming_Home_Directory

 

[balamw]

You're not the first

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/renamehomerecovery.html

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[Mirai 11]

phew..
i just renamed it back, gave it a restart and its back to normal, my 5 seprate heart attacks just stopped lol.
i think its time to read up more about mac os 10.4
thanks everyone

 

[barr08]

phew..
i just renamed it back, gave it a restart and its back to normal, my 5 seprate heart attacks just stopped lol.
i think its time to read up more about mac os 10.4
thanks everyone

Haha it worked! Brilliant!