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Brian Ray
3,293 PointsHELP!!!! console mistake: renamed User, now my computer won't start up with my files accessible through GUI
Playing around with the console, I'm a little in too deep: To clarify.....I created a new user (userNEW) and wanted this to be my new user name, so I either moved (mv) or copied everything from userOLD to userNEW. I turned off my computer, when I restarted, mac didn't give me an option to start from userNEW....so I typed in old password for userOLD....it appeared everything had vanished. My desktop was completely different, dock completely different, nothing in my files. Only when I opened the console again and went checking could I see that the userNEW was still there and contained all my files......userOLD contained nothing. Nothing is accessible through the GUI.
I thought: no problem. Just move userNew to userOld and when my computer starts up....everything will be back to normal. Not the case.... sudo mv userNEW userOLD.....now the userNEW is just a directory inside of userOLD : userOLD/userNew.
I want it to go back to the way it was...I still don't have access to my folders through the GUI, only through the console.....
Please help me get it back to the way it was, or make the userNEW the default startup directory