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Hello everyone,
I recently had to reformat my Macbook and reinstall. In the Macintosh HD/users folder are three folders: one with an icon of a little house with my computer's short name, another called Shared and another with my first and last name.
In System Preferences/Accounts, I only have one user. Whenever I use the finder to drag and drop a file into, say, Movies, it drags it into the second user folder ie. not the one with the little house icon. Consequently, Front Row cannot find my avi's and iTunes cannot find my music.
While I can (and have) simply transfer all my files from one folder to another, it doesn't explain where this extra user came from and why it seems to have control over the Pictures, Movies and Music folders on the left hand side in Finder while the account that I'm logged in on is somehow secondary.
I really don't want to have to reformat my machine again. How do I delete this second user safely? Where did it come from?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a million
Dave

Some ways that you can end up with extra user folders are:
You migrated data from an older computer using the migration assistant or target disk mode.
If that is not the case then what has happened is that you done an archive and install not preserving user and network settings but then that folder should be located in a previous system folder.
The most likely scenario, is however, that you somehow managed to rename your home folder.
When that happens and you restart your computer the system will look for a folder with your username, that name on your computer, is the name on the folder that has the home icon.
If a folder with that name is not found a new user folder will be created, it will however, not contain any of your current data files.
Open the folder which does not have the home icon and check for your user data.
If it contains your user data you need to rename it back to the name of the home folder with the icon.
It is not that simple though since you can't have 2 folders with the same name.
So move the folder with the home icon into shared.
Now rename the other folder to its proper name.
Then log out and when you log back in you will be logged into the other user folder with your data.
If you created any files under the new user folder you can retrieve them from the folder you dragged into Shared and you will note that it no longer has the home icon.

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