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Change your short username in OS X 10.9 Mavericks

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A frequent question (https://www.google.com/#q=change+short+username+mac) we receive about OS X is “How do I change my short username?” While it's easy to change your full username—an easily-accessible setting in the Users &amp; Groups pane of System Preferences—there’s no obvious way to change the short username, which is also the name of your home folder in the Finder.</p><p>
Prior to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, changing your short username was a complicated, risky procedure. In fact, it was so complex that even Apple’s own instructions (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1428) weren’t exhaustive. Because of this, a colleague and I wrote a special utility for pre-Leopard versions of OS X, ChangeShortName (http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/622542/danfrakesweb/ChangeShortName.html), that did the job right.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2107780/change-your-short-username-in-os-x-10-9-mavericks.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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