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    Ran into a problem

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by cfern, Aug 17, 2006.

  1. cfern

    cfern Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok so i think i did a 'whoops' while continuing to familiarize myself with OS X.

    I renamed my personal folder, it was automatically my whole name in lowercase since the beginning. I wanted to just name it something shorter since i have a super long name.

    I did and afterwards, all of my settings for ical, address book, adium, etc were wiped clean. Also... the original folder still exsts and is in my sidebar... kind of annoying... any way i can just restore this to how it was this morning, or combine the new and old one so i no longer have to wonder where aps are drawing their info and saving the passwords to?

    Side note: I'm dumb

    -c
     
    cfern, Aug 17, 2006
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    cfern Notebook Enthusiast

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    Also, if anyone knows, is there a way to prevent Mac's Mail program from opening attachments as text inside the message? I just want to download the file to the desktop then open it... and it wont let me download the file... just opens it inside the mail... pretty annoying
     
    cfern, Aug 17, 2006
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    xbandaidx Notebook Deity

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    How could you change your home directory?

    I was under the assumption that only an administrator can change the outerlying home folder settings, or unless your under admin the whole time.

    As for opening the attachments inside of mail, I haven't had that problem, it would open the program that was assigned for its file format.
     
    xbandaidx, Aug 17, 2006
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  4. Starlight

    Starlight Notebook Evangelist

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    You can rename your home folder, at least as an admin account - and your first account is always an administrator by default.

    What happens is that when you boot up next time it sees that there is no directory named what it is looking for and creates a new user directory. The old data is still there, but it is not your "home" anymore. Best way of fixing is to simply copy the data from the renamed one to the newly created one.

    Create a new user and copy stuff to there if you want to change the name :)
     
    Starlight, Aug 18, 2006
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