Q: how can I change home directory name
Truly I guess it's not crucial. I only occasionally notice it, but for some daft reason I named the home directory an old girlfriend's name in 2008. The MacBook Air has lasted longer than the girlfriend and when I do see it I just think "I really ought to change that", but the "how to" article on the support site hasn't been updated to Macericks (and doesn't look as though it has been updated that recently really). Don't want to embark on this and have a non-functional laptop - it's not that crucial - but if it was possible to do safely then I would give it a go....
MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
Posted on Nov 8, 2013 2:49 AM
I had never enabled Root before so was wary. However, it went very smothly for me yesterday for renaming an Admin user home directory. The directory is located in Your HD/users/
I renamed it as usual by selecting the folder, then clicking on the name to enable renaming. After that, I renamed the user in System Preferences and it advised me via a pop-up that a user folder of that name already existed, and did I want to use that. I clicked 'yes' and it repaired ACLs and finished the job. I then logged out of Root user, logged into the renamed account and disabled Root as advised. Worked fine. I then rebooted and logged into my Standard user account and now the HD/users/ has the renamed folder.
There are other procedures using the Terminal command and Sudo but I am not familiar with those, and Apple states that the method above is the safest.
Posted on Nov 8, 2013 3:39 AM