I made a small mistake while writing my home directory name…
On a MacBook Pro 10.5.7
Any suggestions?
eh?
Each user’s home directory is typically named with his userid. Like /Users/bvdshec17. It’s an automatic part of the system. Not something you typically do explicitly.
/Users/bvdshec17
How do you mean that you wrote your home directory name wrong? Where?
That’s exactly it.
I wrote: Not true, just as an example Users / Jhon but I want to correct and write Users / John
How do I change it? Do you know know what I mean?
My point is that it’s named after your userid on the system.
So… you accidentally entered your userid as Jhon (example)? If yes, then go into System Preferences > Accounts and modify your user’s account name.
Jhon
Then your home directory name will auto-update to reflect that change.
Its really not meant to be changed, but there are ways to do it: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10329990-263.html?tag=mfiredir
@justn & @robmandu Thanks anyway for your help, but I reinstalled Mac OS X and everything’s fine now. I appreciate your help :)
No problem.
Reinstalling or just making a new account with the proper short name is the easiest, most correct way to fix your problem.