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my macbook decides to factory reset (virus?)
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Sorry EricNau, I'm referring to the System Preferences name, shortname and the folder in the Users folder. 
If you want to be absolutely sure, feel free.
It should look like this, a part from the custom icon I have for my home folder. See how they all match.
If yours all match then log out and log back in again.
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I had a hunch you might be, but because of the (unfortunate) placement of your post, I couldn't figure out which post you were addressing.Sorry EricNau, I'm referring to the System Preferences name, shortname and the folder in the Users folder.
(In regard to pictures...)
Yes, I believe everything is right now.
Just log out and then log back in.
Yes, I believe everything is right now.
Just log out and then log back in.
I think the problem here is that there are a few different techniques for getting out of this sticky situation. Both are just as good as each other, but you need to stick with one of them as combining them will get you into a mess (albeit a recoverable mess). Add to that the fact we're all triping over ourselves to help you and we've kinda left you in a small state of confusion. Sorry.
The key is to have everything named the same. I'm going by Apple's technique which will leave you where you started with Cloakone but swiftaw's technique will leave you with Mudassar. Follow one of our techniques, but not both.
However, by the sounds of things everything is now called Cloakone (or cloakone) so when you next log in you should have everything as it was before this mess.
The key is to have everything named the same. I'm going by Apple's technique which will leave you where you started with Cloakone but swiftaw's technique will leave you with Mudassar. Follow one of our techniques, but not both.
However, by the sounds of things everything is now called Cloakone (or cloakone) so when you next log in you should have everything as it was before this mess.
so according to the pics everything is fine, Name: Mudassar
Short Name: cloakone
home icon = cloakone
home icon on side bar= cloakone
good?
brbThe desktop may look the same because of slight errors when you originally changed the names, but are there any documents in your documents folder for example.
yeah my documents are here, the only reason there here is before i made this thread, i went in to user/ copied my documents into this one im some what lost, there weird part is where is my pictures??
Go back to your Account Settings in System Preferences. Do they still look exactly the same (as in your screenshot above)?
EDIT: To clarify, assuming your account didn't somehow change, then no, the "c" needs to be lowercase.
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the weird part is i did a spotlight for Pictures and two picture folders came up, one that looked like the side bar picture and on that looked like a normal folder, i clicked on the sidebar looking on empty, i looked at the plain folder named pictures it has my pictures, how do we solve that equation?