Finding photos, music, etc from previous home folder
Alright. I screwed up by renaming my homefolder by accident. Despite much good advice and references to many good articles by the honorable members on this board, I have not been able to restore the contents of my original home folder.
Here's what I need to do now, manually, I think:
1. Find and import all my old email messages.
2. Tell iTunes how to find all the music that was in my home folder before the gaff.
3. Find my old photos and tell iPhoto how to find them.
4. Re-register applications that I had purchased that no longer recognize my computer.
Anyone have instructions that a beginner could follow?
Many thanks,
Kelly Haley
Mac OS X 10.3.9
iTunes 7.6.2 (9)
iPhoto 4.0.3 (4H2)
Mail 1.3.11 (v622/624)
Message was edited by: Kelly H
I know this stuff is still on my machine. I can search and find it, I just don't know how to get my apps to find it on their own!
If you can find all those things, you are more than halfway there.
Open a Finder window to the location where your old files are located. For example, if you used default settings, your iTunes music library files should be at
<startup drive>/Users/<OLD user name>/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/
You can follow the path more easily if you go to the View menu (in Finder) and select +Show path bar+. Now, open a second Finder window to
<startup drive>/Users/<NEW user name>/Music/iTunes/
There should be another +iTunes Music+ folder there that is empty. Move the OLD +iTunes Music+ folder (drag and drop) to the NEW iTunes folder (where the NEW +iTunes Music+ folder already exists). Finder will ask if you want to replace the existing folder. Select OK to do so.
Now launch iTunes. I don't think iTunes will automatically recognize the new content (maybe it will). If it does not, select your Music library in the left sidebar of the iTunes window. To get iTunes to recognize all your existing media, drag and drop that just moved +iTunes Music+ folder from the Finder window to the main pane of the iTunes window. Let iTunes do its thing, which may take a while if you have a lot of songs.
iPhoto should be a similar process. Find your files under old user, find the equivalent location under the new user, move the folder with the files to the new user, make iPhoto recognize the content at the new user's location. I don't use iPhoto too much...
For Mail, the Mail data folder is in the user folder's Library folder.
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