You don't have permission to save the file "***" in the folder "Users"

I changed name of Home folder according to this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1428?viewlocale=en_US
Everything was OK, but today I switch on Aperture 3, and when I'm trying to import some pictures, I have this message: 'You don't have permission to save the file "cichy" in the folder "Users".'... "cichy" is previous name of my Home folder. Any solution, how I can fix it?

Thanks for quick answerr. Unfortunately I have OS X 10.8.4 - in article are 10 steps for OS X 10.5 or later, and 43 steops for OS X 10.4.11 and earlier... I didn't do step 28 - should I do the instructions for KeyChain?

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