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I accidentally removed the 'Home' directory from my Darwin /Users/myid directory. Now I still have a /Users/myid/Desktop directory containing all my desktop files but I can't see the icons on my monitor visual desktop (on the top of the desktop background). Also when I open my home directory on Finder, the Documents and Movies folder do not have the customized icons I was used to see before. All the folders have the same generic icon.
How can I reset the desktop?

agiannetti wrote:
I wanted to change my user name from the finder and from there I started having all sort of problems. I think what happens is that Mac OS can't find the .DS files and the Library folder under the new user name home directory.
The Finder shouldn't let you change the home directory name without a warning, I think.
That would probably be a good idea! I thought maybe you weren't meant to be able to do this so I just tried it and it really does just let you do it. Odd. I almost immediately regretted the experiment, too, and accidentally deleted a bunch of hidden files trying to recover... (Backups are very handy at times!)
I wonder if non-admin users can do this. I suspect not.
The problem is that the name of your home directory does not determine your user name. Rather, your (short) user name determines the name of your home directory. If you move your home directory, it is no longer your home as far as the computer is concerned. Viewing you as now homeless, it helpfully tries to give you a new shelter.
If you really want to change your short user name, there are safe ways of doing so but you either need to do a little bit of work to make sure it is done properly or you can use one of the utilities which can do all of that for you. If you wait a little, somebody who knows about those utilities may come along and suggest one. Never having used one myself, I cannot make any recommendations.
You may find these instructions helpful in recovering your home etc. It also contains pointers to instructions concerning ways to change your short name safely.
- cfr

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