Home folder: can't "rename" in finder per step 3 in Apple's HT1428

Ran Setup Assistant on a new MacBook Air and transferred everything (settings and all) over from my old computer (disabled) using its Time Capsule backup during Setup Assistant's original (and only) run.
Problem is: the home folder on the new computer retains the old computer's name. I read in quick "Help" (from Finder's top menu line) that "You can’t change the name of a home folder. If you want to use a different name, you must create a new user (this requires administrator privileges)."
But Apple publishes HT1428: "OS X: How to change your account name or home directory name," so I try it.   OS X 10.7 and later directions say:
     [create new admin account, log out of old, log in under new, and]
     2. Navigate to the /Users folder in Finder.
     3. Rename the home folder for the old account, being sure to make note of both the old account name and the new account name.
After logging in as new admin, when I highlight the old account's home folder name, it will not "box itself out" so I can change its name. "Get Info-ing" the folder (file) shows the Name & Extension grayed out and unchangeable.
So I'm stalled out at the very beginning. Any ideas?
Thinking . . . HT1428 gives a different procedure for home folder name change in OS X 10.6, using terminal to "mv" a new name into place. The old computer was 10.6.8 and everything about it came over during setup. Could it need the OS X 10.6 instructions?
And am I playing with fire?

I don't see anything different about yours from mine. I have no problem renaming another account home folder.
All the reasons I can guess at for it not being available you seem to have verified.
Copy and paste in this command in Terminal. Make sure there is a space after what you paste, then drag in the old home folder. It will list the ACLs and any Finder flags on the folder.
ls -dleO
You should only see this after the line listing the folder info:
0: group:everyone deny delete
In the first line of the output, you should see a - between "staff" and the file size number.
There isn't any difference between the move command and doing it with the Finder, except the safety of not typing anything wrong. I imagine the Finder calls mv when it renames, but I don't know for sure.

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Message was edited by: therealvinz

therealvinz wrote:
Hi,
I have a problem accessing my home folder in the sidebar of Finder and in general starting the Finder from the dock. If I click on the Finder icon in the dock nothing happens, if I click on my home folder in the Finder sidebar a popup message is asking me with which application I want to open my home folder!?. Obviously Finder forgot how to open my home folder.
Finder still opens a normal Finder window if I double click on an existing folder on the desktop but not via Finder menu bar or right mouse menu on the Finder icon. I can still access my home folder via terminal "/Volumes/myname"
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4/17/12 6:40:26.410 AM com.apple.opendirectorybackup: 2012-04-17 03:40:19 +0000 5 Creating archive
4/17/12 6:40:26.410 AM com.apple.opendirectorybackup: 2012-04-17 03:40:19 +0000 command: /usr/bin/hdiutil create -ov -plist -puppetstrings -layout UNIVERSAL CD -fs HFS+ -volname ldap_bk -srcfolder /tmp/slapconfig_backup_stage71031lThmRX -format SPARSE /var/backups/ServerBackup_OpenDirectoryMaster
4/17/12 6:40:26.410 AM com.apple.opendirectorybackup: 2012-04-17 03:40:26 +0000 Removed directory at path /tmp/slapconfig_backup_stage71031lThmRX.
4/17/12 6:40:26.410 AM com.apple.opendirectorybackup: 2012-04-17 03:40:26 +0000 Removed file at path /var/run/slapconfig.lock.

Home folder lost - user account restored to default

I installed SL last weekend, no major problems but many annoying bugs. This morning when I woke up the computer had hung - screen saver was frozen. I held down the power key to shutdown. Turned the computer back on, clicked on my user account icon, and it was like I'd just picked up a new computer... my home folder had been replaced with a "straight out of the box" home folder. Standard desktop, standard dock, nothing in my documents folder, standard library. My entire home folder is gone.
All apps are still available - they are on a different partition with the OS.
The partition where my home folder lives is now virtually empty. I used stellar pheonix to try to recover the files from my home folder, but it did not find them as lost not as deleted files. It gave me the option of recovering about 40GB of deleted files, but they were legitimately deleted files.
I have repaired the disk - no problems. Any suggestions would be appreciated...

After Dubaidan and tcnsdca I am the third person in this thread who has experienced this 'wipe home directory' bug. I upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard last week. By accident I clicked on the 'guest login' icon on my MBP thirty minutes ago. After about 1 minute it automatically returned to the login screen, without showing up the guest desktop, so I decided to click on the 'guest login' again. This went pretty smooth and when I logged out the message appeared that all the 'guest login data' wouldn't be saved, but returned to normal.
When logging in to my regular account everything was gone. I don't use filevault. Nothing has been renamed to something else. My home-directory still exists under /Users/username but it is just empty.
Apple should have noticed this bug report already. It doesn't feel right that Apple doesn't take immediate measures when someone reports such a bug with a high potential data loss.
I would suggest to everyone to disable the guest login option IMMEDIATELY until Apple has addressed this. I hope that Apple will come up with a swift response and a nice gesture to victims of this bug.

"Fire-vault protected home folder did not open and needs to be repaired."

I recently updated my macbook to leopard and after my laptop downloaded system updates, it had to restart but when I came to the login section and tried to login, I get this message:
"Fire-vault protected home folder did not open and needs to be repaired. Click OK to repair the folder and continue logging in. Click Cancel login to log in as a different user."
I don't have a different user so I clicked OK, but then I get this message:
"You are unable to log in to the user account "Kyle" at this time. Logging in to the account failed because an error occured."
So now I can't login and I'm a college student and need important files on my computer. Someone please help! I have class tomorrow!

Sorry, I re-read your question and realize from the title you had file vault on upgraded and now it won't let you into the home folder. This is a known issue and I hope Apple produce a fix. I encountered this problem but fortunately I took a bootable image backup to a firewire drive. I booted off that as root and then opened the sparese image which is the home folder. This gave warnings but let me copy important documents to safety and also export address book and safari book marks.
If you do not have a backup I am very sorry to say you may have lost those files. It is worth backing up important college work, even if it is just to CD. I hope Apple come up with a fix for this because many of us hit this problem. Part of the reason for owning a Mac is you do not expect to have these issues. It made me feel like I had just installed XP!

Change Admin Acct - Home Folder Short Name

Hi Folks,
I'm a new MAC user and I accidentally "fat-fingered" the short name of the administrator's home folder during initial configuration of my machine. I think I remember seeing that the short name of the adminstrator's home folder can't be changed.
Is there a workaround that will allow me to change the short name of the administrator's home folder?
I don't want to have to look at this grossly-mispelled folder name for the next umpteen years.
Thanks much for any help.
Descartes
iMac 20inch Core 2 Duo, 2.33 GHz, 3MB SDRAM, 256MB VRAM Mac OS X (10.4.7) iBM Think Pad T41P, 1.7 GHz, WinXP
iMac 20inch Core 2 Duo, 2.33 GHz, 3MB SDRAM, 256MB VRAM Mac OS X (10.4.7) iBM Think Pad T41P, 1.7 GHz, WinXP

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106824 should do it for you.

"Home" Folder doesn't show

Hi,
I had formatted my macbook pro with mac lion OSX installed from usb drive and everything went well except the major issue that I am unable to see "Home" folder with house icon in finder sidebar. Infact, application icon also couldnt be seen in dock. Tried formatting system several times but in vain
Thanks

From the Finder menu:
Finder>Preferences>Sidebar---->check the box with the house.
Mac 101.

Home folder: can't "rename" in finder per step 3 in Apple's HT1428

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