How do you change the User name?

In Preferences you can change it, but in MacHD/Users you can't, and the two were slightly different (Preferences: John Smith; Users: johnsmith) to start with. I need to change the MacHD/Users (the one with the house icon) so that my online backup service can recognize it. If it can't be done I'll have to re-upload 500 GB of data which will take a month and slow my computer to a crawl. ... and I'll just chalk it up to another head-scratcher issue with Mountain Lion. This all started when I had to do a clean install of Mountain Lion.

Start with a google search for change shortname site:apple.com and peruse the hits.

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