The setup:
I have a Mac Mini, with my home directory on a Firewire Hard Drive. Running Snow Leopard.
2 Days ago I woke up, and my computer was unresponsive. I could move the mouse around, but windows didn't respond to clicks, the Dock didn't seem to work, basically the system was unusable. I used the power button to shut down the machine.
I started the computer back up, and I was greeted with what was essentially a new account - my FW drive hadn't mounted to the same point. I went into the account preferences and changed the drive, now mounted at "/Volumes/myname 1"
After I restarted, at the login screen, I got an error that I couldn't log into the account.
Unfortunately, it's the only account that I had set up for the computer. I've booted up off my Snow Leopard disc, verified both discs (they're fine), but I can't seem to figure out a way to change the home folder for my main account to something other than the Firewire drive.
So - does anyone have any suggestions for how to get this thing back on track? Is there a way to change my account configuration to point to a different home folder via the Terminal when booting from the Snow Leopard disc?
Thanks in advance,
Jon
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