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Recovering from a moved /Users folder
Authored by: cshuman on May 03, '04 12:13:46PM

Amazing! Someone else had almost the exact same problem I had last week. My 1 1/2 year old daughter changed Users partition form "Users" to "L". It freaked me out.

I symlink to /Volumes/Users/ so my new user directory was "chris", but my real was renamed to "chris 1". I just did a

mv /Volumes/Users/chris "chris 2" and then did a
mv /Volumes/Users/"chris 1" chris after logging in as root
and everything worked fine, but it took me awhile to realize
exactly what had happened.

Everything is working fine now.

Oh, bye the way I decided to revoke my Administrator status and am also keeping the computer at the login window via fast user switching. That should keep this from happening again.

Chris

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