Changed home folder name and lost everything

Question

I tried to change the home folder name on my mac by using this sudo code in the terminal:

sudo mv /Users/old_name /Users/new_name

And I lost everything, every document, every file. Its like my user profile has totally been reset.

How do I get it all back?

Solution

Go to System Preferences → Users & Groups and right click on your user. It will appear an Avanced Options menu. Then replace Home Directory with /Users/new_name.

Logout and login again and should appear all your stuff.

Comments

[slhck]

Can I ask why you did it? What are you trying to achieve? Note that you should be very careful with sudo commands unless you absolutely know what you're doing (or have a backup — do you have one?).

[Razär]

I think the only reason this answer doesn't have a lot of upvotes is because people are logged out of everything when they try to solve this problem! haha I had to come back here after fixing it to upvote it. Thank you, unsung hero!