Help Badly Needed!

MarkCro

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Hi,

I am not that technical so please bear with me. I'm using Mac OS X 10.3.9 on an iMac. As pretty much the only one who uses the computer now (it used to be my Dad's) I decided to change his account name to my own, and use my own password (as of a few days ago).

All was going fine until last night I also changed the username next to the home icon in the "Users" section of my HD, to my own.

This afternoon I turned on my computer and all seems to have re set itself /changed to a new account. The items in my dock are the same, but all my Internet favourites have gone, my iPhoto Library is blank, my Real Player needed re registering - and most importantly my iTunes (which had 3500 songs in it yesterday) is empty.

All the songs/photos etc are still on my computer, because I have found them, but there is not enough memory to copy them all back into iTunes/iPhoto again.

To save all the bother, I basically just want to revert back to the settings from last night, but frankly have no idea how to!

Any help would be gladly appreciated.

Mark
 
It's ok to change the user account name, but the folder name needs to stay the same. All the information of your account is stored in the home folder, and if you change the name, it will assume that the home folder is gone, and create a new one. If you can, change the name of the folder back.
 
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