How do I change home directory name?

In FINDER, the home directory name is from an old employee. How can I change it?

Log out and then into a different user account, or create one from System Preferences. If so desired, control-click the account in the Accounts or Users & Groups pane of System Preferences, choose Advanced Options, and change the name and home properties; if the computer happens to be running Mac OS X 10.4, the instructions are significantly different.
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Changing home directory name

Hello,
I have a macbook OS X version 10.7.5
I bought this computer years ago used and am yet to figure out how to change the directory name.
Help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Open the Users & Groups pane of System Preferences, unlock it, control-click your account, choose Advanced Options, and change it.
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How to change Home Directory name

I'm giving my daughter my old MacBook (OS 10.6.3) and want to change the home directory to her name, so that it looks like it's her computer and not mine.
Do I have to wipe the laptop and reinstall system and other software, or can I delete my old account and make hers the "My Account" or Home or however it is called. Would that have potentially devastating consequences for Privileges, for example?
Changing the Home User name to hers in the Accounts Preferences window had no effect on the Users directory (in the Finder).
The problem my be nothing more than cosmetic, but I'd like her to see her name as a user and not mine (she is a teenager, after all)
Thank you.

Hi
The simplest solution is to add a new Admin account for her, log out from your user, log in as her user, and delete your old user in System Preferences. When you delete your account you'll have the option to save the files in an archive file or delete immediately (which will irrevocably delete all files) - so make sure you have backed up or moved any files you want to keep (music, pictures, etc).
Matt

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I'm logged in as root and have navigated to the /Users directory. I'm instructed to change the name as I would any other Mac folder although it appears to be read-only. Any thoughts as to why?
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There must be some corporate directive that Apple support is not allowed to use the command line. That makes this process 3 times harder than it should be. Follow these instructions instead: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3872

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Hi,
I recently purchased a new iMac and migrated account info from my MacBook Pro. I happened to use random account name during migration without knowing it will not be easy to change the short name (account name?) and home directory name. As a result, I am now having extremely confusing short name and home directory name on my new iMac.
I did online search to find out how to change the two names, but I could only found somethig like "enabiling root user and....." I have no idea what it was talking about and I don't want to take risk altering such advance set up manually.
Please advice how I can change the short name and home directory name safely without much PC knowledge.
Thank you very much in advance.

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Then, login with the new account and copy the files over. Once they are copied, the correct permissions will be applied again (so other people on your computer can't access them).
If you can't do this method for one reason or other, you can do some terminal commands to change the ownership of the files. Login to the new account. If it is an admin account, open terminal and type the following command:
sudo chown -R -v yourusername:admin /Users/originalaccountnamehere
That should change the ownership of the files from your old account to the new one. At that point, you can simply drag the files into place.

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so i changed my short name and home directory name because i bought the macbook used and i was trying to rename it to my name.
Like all the others now the desktops back to default without any of my files/music, i know its still here its in the old account folder how do i just reverse this so i can have my desktop and everything back.
heres what it is like:
my users folder there is a home icon called "Josh" which is my name, then there is a folder icon called "nick" which is the old name and it contains all my files etc. then a shared folder icon.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1428

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Hello I've bought a second hand Mac mini.
Under system preferences...users and groups...user admin...advanced options
How do you change the user ID, Group, Account name and home directory name?
When I go to do this there is a warning sigh that the user won't be able to log in. As I'm the new owner of the Mac mini I'd like to put my own name there but not share if I'm doing it right.
Thanks Edd

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Good thing you asked, not that easy, & can be dangerous...
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1428
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Here are the instructions from Apple on changing user short name or home directory name. I've used this on a couple of used MacBooks I've bought on eBay. And remember to go into System Preferences>Sharing and change the Computer Name in there.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1428

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A month ago I bought the latest iMac and used Migration assistant to migrate all of my data on over.
Everything went well... Except that my new iMac would not let me use my old user name. I had to create somethign else.
So my user (admin) account name is not the same as my Home directory name. (I only have 1 user account and 1 user Home directory... they both are named differently).
This has not caused problems, but I want to iron this out. I tried using System Preferences/Users and groups to change my user account name to match the name of my home directory name (which has my old user name)... but when I did that it said "Name not available".
Long time Mac user but I'm not comfortable doing anything deeper without some input & advice.
Thanks in advance!

I enable the Root user as outlined in the Apple Way instructions...logged out and loged in as the rooot user... but I really don't want to change the name of my user directory... That's the name I want to keep as a User.
Even logged in as a Root User...
I tried to change my current User Name to match by directory name, but it said Name is Not Available
I also tried to create a new User name that matches my directory name...same results Name is Not Available
Is there a sudo entry that will change the User to match my Directory name (which I want to keep and use)?
Thank in advance!

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