Hi All,
I recently got a 12" late 04 PowerBook G4 (6,4) 1.33 GHz running 10.5.8. It came with a user account named User User. I changed the name to the name that I wanted. Now, when I go inE SIDEBAR THto the users folder there's a folder called User User the side bar on the left side of the windows is i home icon that's called User User. The login window shows my name. How do I fix this?
Hi Igor, you can't do it that simply in the Finder.
Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4 or later: Return to default desktop, apparent "loss" of home directory...
There's only one user folder in users.That's UserUser. it contains my stuff. There's only one login. That's Jon. There's only one account. That's Jon. I login with my name and the stuff goes into a home folder called UserUser. UserUser shows up in the sidebar when I'm logged in as Jon.
Hi again, I'm not seeing where the problem is, what am I missing?
Did you try the link to restore it back to the Original user, then do it the correct way?
I didn't change the name of the home directory. I changed the name of the account. But the user directory remained the same. Nothing was lost because nothing was there. It's just that although I changed the name of the account, The name in Users didn't change nor did it change in the sidebar. I changed the name in the account to Jon. I login as Jon, I logout as Jon. The User folder aand the name in the sidebar didn't change to Jon but remained as UserUser. Any changes that I make while logged in as Jon are made to the UserUser folder. It's more of a nuisance than a real problem. As long as I don't mind my user folder being named UserUser and don't mind my name by the home in the home in the sidebar showing up as UserUser it isn't a problem at all. For that matter I could change the account back to UserUser and spend the rest of my life as UserUser But I'd rather change it to who I want to be while there's nothing there.
OK, not sure I understand completely, but...
Reset OS X Password Without an OS X CD...
http://theappleblog.com/2008/06/22/reset-os-x-password-without-an-os-x-cd/
Admin Hack...
http://www.hackmac.org/?q=node/4
Starts up like the first time you buy a new Mac, but after filling in all that info again, you should have access to the computer and the other Users & files will still be there... give the new User a different name than an existing one.
Your problem is much like the the problem I just replied to in another thread with a related problem. See my post there.
Thanks X423424X. That did it. I went in there and changed my short name from UserUser to Jon and changed the path to my home folder so that the folder was named Jon. I ended up with user folders for both and got rid of the one I didn't want. Wanted to take care of it before I did too much and ended up losing a bunch of stuff.
Sorry BDAqua but his was easier. Yours might have worked but I'm a little leary of using Terminal if I don't know what I'm typing. Yours might help me with another situation I forsee so if it comes about I'll post it here and you can post the same answer for a "solved".
Igor_G5 wrote:
Thanks X423424X. That did it. I went in there and changed my short name from UserUser to Jon and changed the path to my home folder so that the folder was named Jon. I ended up with user folders for both and got rid of the one I didn't want. Wanted to take care of it before I did too much and ended up losing a bunch of stuff.
As you can see it isn't that hard when you are aware of all the "moving parts".😉
Igor_G5 wrote:
Sorry BDAqua but his was easier. Yours might have worked but I'm a little leary of using Terminal if I don't know what I'm typing. Yours might help me with another situation I forsee so if it comes about I'll post it here and you can post the same answer for a "solved".
Start a new thread. Don't overload a thread on one topic with another. It make it harder for others to find answer on a particular topic. Also you cannot marked "solved" twice in any one thread.
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