MacBook Air Username change

I recently tried changing my username on my laptop. I followed all the steps. when lappy restarted, my username had changed but password was still the same. the short name on the login page appears as admin, and in the system preferences/usersandgroups it appears as Administrator. my home name is written as Mac...


can someone please help me recover my username. right now ì can't delete or install things on it because of the darn username that I cannot seem to figure out..

MacBook Air

Posted on Jun 10, 2020 2:06 AM

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Posted on Jun 10, 2020 11:22 AM

Log into the other user account you should have created when first attempting to change the main user account name. Then make sure to follow the instructions in this Apple article very carefully to correct the mistake:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201548


You can also restore your system from a backup.

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MacBook Air Username change

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