Hi Shaun, You should not rename your home folder, but this mistake has happened often enough that I was able to find a web page describing how to recover. http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/renamehomerecovery.html
It's going to be harder because you've turned your machine on and off, but it's doable. Let me read through the instructions. Here's the description of the symptoms, which match yours: If you change the file name of your Home folder while using your account, it will immediately appear as if all of your preferences, Mail, Address Book contacts, iCal calendars, iPhoto pictures, iTunes music, Dock customization, and other items have either vanished or been reset to default values. What has happened is that a new Home > Library folder (~/Library directory) has been created, effectively resetting all your preferences and moving the data for many of your applications -- Mail, Address Book, iCal, and others -- from where these applications expect to find such. I'll read the instructions and post again. Esther On Tuesday, September 25, 2007, at 05:32PM, "VaShaun Jones" wrote: >Listers I was listening to the VO MP3 tutorials and going through the DOC, >Home and VO menus. Between Mail, I Tunes and the previous mentioned items >being opened I managed to make my system do something strange and I >desperately need your help. I was on my home folder and I interacted with its >text and changed its name (at least that is what I thought I was doing) by >putting in my own text and pressing return. Every since that very action I no >longer have my programs like e-mail, Skype or my downloads on my Desktop. When >I turned off the computer and turned it back on I was meet with the new >computer registration and I pressed cancel. I opened up Mail and it was asking >me to set up a new account. I still have the same installed programs and can >do a spot light search for [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it gives me listings for my >e-mail domain and server. Both the fact that I still have my installed >programs and spotlight showing my mail gives me hope that someone knows the >answer to getting me back on track. Also for some strange reason my default VO >voice was set back to Fred as well, but remember I was in the VO settings. >This was after the voice change prompted me to check it out.It is like I have >a hidden account or something. Please be descriptive as possible with your >replies. Thanks > >
