I just lost 20 gigs of music!

someone please help me.
last night i changed the name of okay...this sounds weird but you know when you click on the harddrive and on the left hand side of the window there are applications and then the desktop and below that is a house icon? well i changed the name of that house icon. when i did that i lost all my music and a bunch of settings. is there anyway to reset the computer to yesterday? i know you can do it on PC's. i'm in a real panic. i tried searching and none of my music is coming up anywhere on the harddrive, yet it still says i have the same amount of space left on the harddrive. if i lost the music wouldn't i have 20 gigs more free space?

It's not showing when you search because when you changed the name of the home folder, then logged back in, the system had to create a new folder for your user account. Folders within each respective user folder are only visible to that user when logged in. Basically, you gave all your music and everything else to another user... There is a correct method of properly changing your account's shortname, and with it, the home folder.
See my first post in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3069052#3069052

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