HELP! all my stuff is gone and my child's is in it's place.
One of my children synced their ipod on my account when all they intended to do was charge it on my computer. Now all I can see is their ipod (different name than mine) and all their content, but none of mine, including music, apps and pictures. How do I get my stuff back and theirs off?
Desmond
As you've just discovered, changing the name of your home folder is not recommended.
Here's a link to a Knowledge Base article that will tell you how to recover your original home folder (and all its data).
I've also pasted the results from Sherlock for the same procedure:
To correct a home folder whose name has been changed:
Locate the User's folder on your hard disk and open it.
Select the home folder with the original short user name and the home icon. This folder usually contains a Desktop folder and a Library folder.
Add "_new" to the end of the name so that you can distinguish it later.
Select the regular folder that has the name you used when you changed your original home folder. This folder should contain items you would expect to find in your original home folder, such as your Pictures folder, Documents folder, and so on. Change the name of this folder back to the original short user name.
Log out, then log in again and verify that items are back where they belong.
And, for when everything is back to normal, here's another KB article that tells you how to change the short user name safely - as you will see, it's a complicated process to change the short user name and you really have to ask yourself whether it's worth all those steps!
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