Hi Daniel, As Rosemary uses Time Capsule, & Time Machine to backup both her and her husband's computers. One other point I thought we should make, is that changing the user short name Time Machine will NOT "inherit" or "associate" her husband's old backups.
After the short name is changed the Home Folder has a different name, so it will be backed-up in its entirety. So the first TM backup after the short name change will a full/complete backup of all his data. He will also notice a change in the Time Machine browser. When looking at backups of, say, his Documents folder in the new backups, he won't be able to go directly to the backups of the old one, since they are in a whole different folder. He can select his HD in the sidebar, select the Users folder, then navigate to an earlier backup until he can find the old home folder. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 29/06/2013, at 11:22 PM, Daniel Kerr <wa...@macwizardry.com.au> wrote: > Hi Rosemary > > First off,..Make sure everything is well and truly backed up! > Secondly,.,..Make sure everything is well and truly backed up. > > Ok, now that that's out of the way,…. > There are a few different ways to do it, depending on the OS. > > Apple's info to do it is listed here > <http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1428> > > Another way you can do it is here… > http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/20/change-short-name-user-mac-os-x/ > > You can have "mixed" success with either, so just be wary of it. > > There is a way to do it via a cloned back up, create the new user account and > "copy" the data back. But it can carry permissions errors and library > issues,…so i'm a bit wary to recommend that one. (it's not overly easy > either,…lol). > > Here are some other links to doing it as well… > <https://www.google.com.au/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=how+to+change+osx+user+name&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=XfnOUd-fGIPkkQWKooDYCw> > > But yeh,..as mentioned,..make sure to have a really good backup before you > start. > (Sorry, can't stress that one enough,…lol). > > Hope something there helps ;)) > > Kind regards > Daniel > --- > Daniel Kerr > MacWizardry > > Phone: 0414 795 960 > Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> > Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> > > > **For everything Apple** > > NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and > as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. > Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or > accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this > email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the > author be requested. > > On 29/06/2013, at 10:54 PM, Rosemary Spark <arkaysp...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> My husband has changed his name so wants to change his user name. Not the >> name he logs in with, but the name of the user folder. How do I do it for >> him? >> I remember reading some Terminal instructions at one time but I got cold >> feet as while I'm pretty confident with most things I'm a bit unsure with >> "the black screen" as I know I can damage stuff if I don't know what I'm >> doing. >> >> Kind Regards >> Rosemary Spark >> PO Box 781 >> South Fremantle WA 6162 Australia >> Phone: + 61 8 94336609 >> Mobile: 0414268043 >> arkaysp...@gmail.com
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