Help!! (Changed User Name)

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  1. Mirai 11, Jul 18, 2007

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    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
     
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  2. wyatt23, Jul 18, 2007

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    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.
     
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  3. barr08, Jul 18, 2007

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    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.
     
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  4. Mirai 11, Jul 18, 2007

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    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?
     
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  5. gr8tfly, Jul 18, 2007

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  6. balamw, Jul 18, 2007

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  7. Mirai 11, Jul 18, 2007

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    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 :p
    thanks everyone
     
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  8. barr08, Jul 18, 2007

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    Haha it worked! Brilliant!
     
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