Correct duplicate account

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Correct duplicate account

My original account, firstnamelastname was renamed WRONGNAME during a reinstall.

Recently I tried to correct it and was able to change WRONGNAME to Firstname.

However, something went wrong and while all data is in the account, Finder folder icons aren't displaying correctly:

(I've run Disk Utilty to repair errors and done PRAM reset multiple times with no change.)

I've also discovered that account firstnamelastname remains. Is there a way to consolidate account Firstname and Firstnamelastname to correct the Finder error?

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Mar 24, 2014 11:16 AM

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Answer 1

Mar 24, 2014 2:17 PM in response to Sugith Varughese

This question is linked to another thread:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6022037?answerId=25273651022#25273651022&ac_cid=op123456#25273651

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Answer 2

Mar 25, 2014 8:42 AM in response to Sugith Varughese

This shows the current users:

I'd like to correct the users so that sugithvarughese becomes the user for the account Sugith. sugithvarughese WAS the original account and user. Doing a reinstall caused a home folder name change which I tried to correct causing the duplication that I now need to correct.

Any help or links would be appreciated.

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Answer 3

Eric Root

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Mar 25, 2014 9:00 AM in response to Sugith Varughese

User account name or home directory name

User account short name change

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