[O97Bassist]

Hey everyone
I'm not sure what i did but i was changing the name of my "home" in the main hard drive window and when exited i opened to find itunes has no songs (it had over two hundred) and that all my icons in the main windows were just folders and my mail doesn't remember my account and i had to re set it, i found my songs in my music folder but i had to re inport them. i'm not sure what happened or how to fix it, thanks

[O97Bassist]

also my safari doesnt' have the homepage i set or any of the bookmarks i had saved, and the folders desktop, my name, and muisic are just folder icons instead of the icons they were bvefore.. all in all i just restarted and found that NOTHING i had changed including desktop pattern or any settings have been saved and everything is reverted to when it was first turned on

[brachiator]

Originally posted by O97Bassist:
also my safari doesnt' have the homepage i set or any of the bookmarks i had saved, and the folders desktop, my name, and muisic are just folder icons instead of the icons they were bvefore.. all in all i just restarted and found that NOTHING i had changed including desktop pattern or any settings have been saved and everything is reverted to when it was first turned on

Do you mean everything reverted to before you changed the name of Home? Or that everything reverted to the way the machine was out of the box?

If the former, then no problem -- just don't change the name again until you know how to make everything able to find the folder! (I don't know how to do that, but there ought to be a way...)

If the latter, then I would presume that the OS, when it started back up, couldn't find any Home directory for your user (because you changed the name), and created a new Home directory with all the out-of-the-box default settings. I'd try deleting the new "Home," renaming the old "Home" BACK to "yourusername" or whatever it was -- and then if it is fixed, don't change it back. I'd think that if you can change the name of the directory it should be able to be changed with no problem, but then again, it IS named after your username, so it may be something that cannot be changed without making that user's files disappear!

BTW, all my talk about deleting and renaming pre-supposes that you back up all of these folders before doing anything. I hope you do that regularly anyway, but certainly do it now before mucking about again.

best of luck!

[O97Bassist]

THANKS! that fixed the problem, i must of created a new home and all i did was change the name of the old one back and it all reset THANKS AGAIN!