Change your short username in OS X 10.9 Mavericks<article>
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frequent question 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 & 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 weren’t exhaustive. Because of this, a colleague and I wrote a special utility for pre-Leopard versions of OS X,
ChangeShortName, 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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Change your short username in OS X 10.9 Mavericks
