Did I Screw Up?

I have a MacBook Pro 2.0 Intel Core Duo. It's a few years old but still works fine. Back in August of 2009, I had upgraded the harddrive myself to a Seagate 500 GB drive - had no problems (though it was one of the drives Apple had trouble with in the newer MacBook Pros). On 12/23/09, my hard drive crashed. So I bought a new hard drive (this time an Hitachi 320 GB), installed it and installed Snow Leopard and ran Software Update to update everything. Then I restored my mac by making use of the backup in my Time Capsule. I decided that since the crash left my laptop partially functional for awhile, it would be best to do a fresh install of Snow Leopard just in case any OS errors got into my backup.
So I used the Migration Assistant, pretending like I just bought a new laptop. But in doing so it told me that the user account name on my new harddrive was the same as the account name in my Time Capsule. I didn't realize this would be an issue. I simply used the same account name.(Why would I change it?) But the migration assistant was telling me to change the name since you can't have two accounts with the same name. Duh! So I changed it. It was only when I was clicking continue that I noticed I could have overwritten the user account on my new hard drive, but alas I kept going.
So, after waiting awhile for the restoration, I started up my laptop and noticed nothing changed. I realized I had two user accounts - the one I created when I reinstalled my OSX and the one I restored to under the new name. So I switched users and voila, everything was restored! Yay Apple!
But I want to make sure I didn't screw things up. I haven't tested my laptop much yet but when I synced my iPhone with iTunes, everything worked fine but it said that the photos in my iPhone were no longer synced with my iPhoto library and would I like to resync them? I'm not sure why this was but maybe it was because it thought my iPhoto library had changed folders? It didn't - the user account folder name was changed - but I didn't move the iPhoto library.
So I said yes and had to wait till it reloaded all of my photos to my iPhone. (I do wonder why the photos were a problem but not the music files...) It really wasn't a big deal and it did remember which photo albums I wanted and which I didn't, but it has me concerned that some of my other software might be affected in a similar manner. I suppose it wasn't that bad since it did everything fairly automatically - I didn't have to tell it where my photo library was - it just knew. All I had to do was click Yes and I was back in business, after waiting for all the photos to be optomized and reloaded on the phone.
Just a minor quirk? Am I ok or have I messed things up? Can I leave it as-is, with my laptop restored to the new account name? Or should I redo the whole installation and restore, this time sticking with the same account name that was in my backup? (I suppose this would be accomlished by installing Snow Leopard via a temporary account name and the restoring from Time Capsule using my old account name.) I'm not attached to my old account name - I don't care that it has changed. I just don't want to find out that my software is now confused and can't find all my files cause the account name (and thus the home folder name) has changed.
Thanks!
Paul

Paul Oldewurtel wrote:
I have a MacBook Pro 2.0 Intel Core Duo. It's a few years old but still works fine. Back in August of 2009, I had upgraded the harddrive myself to a Seagate 500 GB drive - had no problems (though it was one of the drives Apple had trouble with in the newer MacBook Pros). On 12/23/09, my hard drive crashed.
I have four Seagate Momentus 7200.4 drives (almost certainly the same 500GB drive you mention) and two of the four have already failed. One failed within 6 hours of being installed. I'm not impressed with this drive and don't blame Apple for dumping it.
So I bought a new hard drive (this time an Hitachi 320 GB), installed it and installed Snow Leopard and ran Software Update to update everything. Then I restored my mac by making use of the backup in my Time Capsule. I decided that since the crash left my laptop partially functional for awhile, it would be best to do a fresh install of Snow Leopard just in case any OS errors got into my backup.
So I used the Migration Assistant, pretending like I just bought a new laptop. But in doing so it told me that the user account name on my new harddrive was the same as the account name in my Time Capsule. I didn't realize this would be an issue. I simply used the same account name.(Why would I change it?) But the migration assistant was telling me to change the name since you can't have two accounts with the same name. Duh! So I changed it. It was only when I was clicking continue that I noticed I could have overwritten the user account on my new hard drive, but alas I kept going.
When you first install Mac OS X (fresh), you get a first-time "out of the box" (OOTB) experience. The little welcome video, the registration questions, etc. During this OOTB, the Mac will run "Setup Assistant" (basically it's Migration Assistant as part of the initial setup.)
The advantage of restoring your Mac from the Time Capsule at this point (while running Setup Assistant) is that no accounts would have been created on the Mac yet, so there would be no account name collisions.
If you ignore Setup Assitant, go ahead and create the first account, and THEN run Migration Assistant, you can't restore accounts if you have any account name collisions. You would need to create a temporary account on your Mac, delete the account with the same name as an account that was backed up via Time Machine, and then perform the restore from Time Machine while logged into the temporary account. You can then delete the temporary account after you've verified that your real account was properly restored.
So, after waiting awhile for the restoration, I started up my laptop and noticed nothing changed. I realized I had two user accounts - the one I created when I reinstalled my OSX and the one I restored to under the new name. So I switched users and voila, everything was restored! Yay Apple!
But I want to make sure I didn't screw things up. I haven't tested my laptop much yet but when I synced my iPhone with iTunes, everything worked fine but it said that the photos in my iPhone were no longer synced with my iPhoto library and would I like to resync them? I'm not sure why this was but maybe it was because it thought my iPhoto library had changed folders? It didn't - the user account folder name was changed - but I didn't move the iPhoto library.
No worries. You'd get the same message if you moved into a new Mac. Since you reinstalled a new drive it looks like iTunes is treating it as though this may be a new Mac (when really it's just a new disk.) Just tell it to sync your photo library to this computer and all should be well.
So I said yes and had to wait till it reloaded all of my photos to my iPhone. (I do wonder why the photos were a problem but not the music files...) It really wasn't a big deal and it did remember which photo albums I wanted and which I didn't, but it has me concerned that some of my other software might be affected in a similar manner. I suppose it wasn't that bad since it did everything fairly automatically - I didn't have to tell it where my photo library was - it just knew. All I had to do was click Yes and I was back in business, after waiting for all the photos to be optomized and reloaded on the phone.
Just a minor quirk? Am I ok or have I messed things up? Can I leave it as-is, with my laptop restored to the new account name? Or should I redo the whole installation and restore, this time sticking with the same account name that was in my backup? (I suppose this would be accomlished by installing Snow Leopard via a temporary account name and the restoring from Time Capsule using my old account name.) I'm not attached to my old account name - I don't care that it has changed. I just don't want to find out that my software is now confused and can't find all my files cause the account name (and thus the home folder name) has changed.
You should be fine. Verify you have all your files on the "restored" account. You should also notice that the account you created just after the fresh install of OS X doesn't have any of your files. That account can safely be deleted.

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