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  • Subject: Home Folder Name Change
  • From: Gil Dawson via AppleScript-Users <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 17:02:46 -0700

Hi--

I used Migration Assistant to copy from my 2009 MacBook Pro with onto a newer 2015 MacBook Pro.

Somehow in the process my home-folder-name (is that the right term?) got changed from "gil" to "gil 1"


Most things work OK, but some of my AppleScripts use a hard-coded path.  They work if I simply change the path a bit: 

from:    POSIX file "/Users/gil/Gil'sStuff/Projects/..."
to:     POSIX file "/Users/gil 1/Gil'sStuff/Projects/..."

It's not an awful chore for me to change all my source code files, yet I thought I'd ask:

Is there a practical way to change my home-folder-name back to "gil" without messing up something else?

--Gil
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