Permissions Messed Up For App Install

iOS: 10.9.5
Macbook Air
The battery of my new Macbook Air was not retaining charge (for more than 2-4 hours depending on usage) so I gave called Apple support and turned it in for monitoring. They claimed that their tests required that they reformat the drive. Silliest thing I ever heard but that was the tech support so I told them to do whatever it took. I had my data backed up so I wasn't too worried.
After they reformatted the hard drive, they created an admin account with the name and password apple. I was annoyed with this enough that I looked up instructions on how to change apple to rasana. The command-line instructions seemed simple enough (I was a Unix sysadmin 15 years ago. I've been an author of fiction since) so I decided to follow instructions from Macworld. Here's what I did:
1. In the Users & Groups pane of System Preferences's Advanced screen, I changed 'apple' to 'rasana'. In the Home Directory field, I changed /Users/apple to/Users/rasana.
2. In the terminal, I did:
$ sudo mv /Users/apple /Users/rasana
I restarted the machine and logged back in. I didn't find anything in the Documents folder. So I went back to the command-line prompt via the terminal:
$ whoami
apple
So I went back to the Users & Groups pane and created a new account called rasana, while calling the old apple-turned-rasana something else. Then I went to the terminal again and copied everything from /User/apple to /User/rasana.
$ whoami
rasana
$ cd /Users/rasana/Documents
$ chown -Rv rasana DirectoryA (I changed them all)
Now I saw all my files in the finder. So far so good.
I tried to use Jutoh from the rasana account (non-root account) to format my file as an ebook (that fiction author thing). I get the message: /Users/apple/<full path> permission denied. As far as the Users & Groups is concerned there is no apple account (though the path exists, I didn't want to mess with that). Figuring it was looking for an old path, I uninstalled Jutoh and reinstalled it. Same problem.
I'm VERY new to iOS, and I was a Unix sysadmin a long time ago, so I'd appreciate help.
Regards.

autochthon:
OS X makes it possible to have completely separate accounts on the same computer and to switch back and forth between them. However, each account is completely separate. Items within any Users Account are owned by that user, and, to the best of my knowledge, you need to be logged in as that User to be able to have access.
A Shared Users Folder may be different, but I have not worked with it, nor have I studied the subject. However, this might be your best approach for experimenting with permissions to allow access to separate users. I suggest that you go to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Help menu > System Preferences Help. Type Shared Folder in search field and check out the options.
Good luck.
cornelius

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http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/application_updates/iphoneconfigurat ionutility10formacosx.html
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