Help to change folder name!

[Bulldog VII]

Hi all

I've just noticed in my rush to get my imac up & running I spelt my name wrong! I've tried to change it to my proper name, but can't see how too??

I have enclosed a pic so you can see what I mean, it's the name under applications in the finder menu under places

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

 

[bartelby]

click on the folder once then hit Return.
You can then type the correct name.

 

[rdowns]

NO

Changing your home folder name isn't easy. Read up here.


http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=changing+your+home+folder+name&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

 

[Bulldog VII]

Looks too complicated for me, I think I'll leave it!

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

Looks too complicated for me, I think I'll leave it!

Well if you haven't too many important documents living only on your computer right now you could do a reinstall and just start over.

 

[swiftaw]

Well if you haven't too many important documents living only on your computer right now you could do a reinstall and just start over.

Why reinstall? Just create a new user account with the correct name.

 

[Buzz Bumble]

There used to be an application that helped change the user name. It worked well under Tiger when I used it a couple of times, but I don't know if it was ever updated for newer versions of Mac OS X.

As swiftaw says, the easiest way would be to create a new User account (making sure it's an admin one), transfer over any personal files, emails, etc. You could then just delete the incorrect account.