HELP: Messed up Mac after disabling Filevault

[Jethryn Freyman]

I disabled Filevault today so I could switch to full disk encryption.

After disabling FV and logging back into my account, some things were very messed up:

-All my music was missing from iTunes. Preferences were still there.
-All my Firefox settings/prefs/addons are gone.

If figured that this is my problem:

It looks like a new account has been created for me. I get this window if I select Go > Home. My original home folder is intact. My original "Desktop" folder seems to now be just another folder, while the Desktop folder in .de2858 is my new actual desktop folder.

I have a backup, but I'd rather understand what has gone wrong so I can safely disable Filevault next time.

 

[BlueRevolution]

It sounds like the process failed to perform the final step of updating your home folder to its proper location. If a restart doesn't fix your problem, you may find the following directions to be of use:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1428

Rather than enabling the root user and moving home folders around, you can just create a new user account using that short name as in steps 5-9.

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

Fixed it myself, all I had to do was remove the new home folder. Everything seems magically fixed now. I'm surprised it was so easy.

I used the sudo rm -rv command from the terminal.

Thanks anyway.