Jessicamaffia
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Hello,
So I use Mac OSX 10.6.4 and this morning I attempted to change the shortname and home folder name of my primary account. I did this by logging into a second account, going to system preferences, control clicking the account I wanted to change, clicking advanced options and changing the account name from "jessueluna" to "jessicamaffia". Then I changed the homedirectory from "/Users/jessueluna to /Users/jessicamaffia." Then I went into Utilities and in Terminal I typed: sudo mv /Users/jessueluna /Users/jessicamaffia. I gave my password and then I restarted the computer and logged into the account I had attempted to change. All of my settings (desktop, files,folders, etc) were changed to what looks like a default setting. So I attempted to change the homefolder once again by logging out and onto the secondary account, trying to rename the Account name and Home Directory again. I retried several times to no avail, then I tried renaming it to the original "jessueluna." now I am so confused and I cant access the files or anything on my main account. All I wanted to do was change the home folder name and the shortname, how do I recover that account and change those names?
So I use Mac OSX 10.6.4 and this morning I attempted to change the shortname and home folder name of my primary account. I did this by logging into a second account, going to system preferences, control clicking the account I wanted to change, clicking advanced options and changing the account name from "jessueluna" to "jessicamaffia". Then I changed the homedirectory from "/Users/jessueluna to /Users/jessicamaffia." Then I went into Utilities and in Terminal I typed: sudo mv /Users/jessueluna /Users/jessicamaffia. I gave my password and then I restarted the computer and logged into the account I had attempted to change. All of my settings (desktop, files,folders, etc) were changed to what looks like a default setting. So I attempted to change the homefolder once again by logging out and onto the secondary account, trying to rename the Account name and Home Directory again. I retried several times to no avail, then I tried renaming it to the original "jessueluna." now I am so confused and I cant access the files or anything on my main account. All I wanted to do was change the home folder name and the shortname, how do I recover that account and change those names?
