[MadanKnightRyukendo]

Okay, so last week, after trying to change the name on my home folder, most of my stuff vanished (pictures, music, video files). So today I ran DiskWarrior, and noticed that I actually now have two folders in my Users folder (one under the old name "pbg4" and one under the new one "Shadow"). So obviously my PowerBook is booting as "pbg4", when all my proper settings and such are still in "Shadow". How do I fix it so that everything will boot from "Shadow" instead, so everything will be back to normal?

[Brass]

change the name back again (you'll have to move the other folder out of the way first) then log out/in again.

[msuper69]

Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4 or later: Return to default desktop, apparent "loss" of home directory