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Mac OS X: Changing Your Short Name Without Breaking Time Machine

Posted on April 22, 2009July 5, 2016 by Jon Stacey

Today I got the urge to change my Mac OS X Leopard account short name (home directory) so that I would have less to type in Terminal. Here’s how I changed my short name without breaking my Time Machine backups.

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