Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Thanks again, Dan Frakes
For the second time in a week I'm giving public thanks to Dan Frakes of MacWorld Magazine and MacFixIt.com fame.
I used Apple's Migration Assistant to move from by iBook to my Mac Mini a few weeks ago. I was generally pleased, but one thing annoyed me: my short user name ("apple") moved with it. It wasn't even a short user name I had chosen; it was one that was applied to the machine when the hard disk died (fortunately, while under AppleCare).
Anyway, it was too much to have not one but two machines with an annoying, inappropriate short name. Coincidentally, I found the ChangeShortUserName utility on the current MacAddict CD. Following all the appropriate steps, I ran the utility on the iBook, and it seems to have worked perfectly. The short user name on the iBook is now SandiBook. So thanks, Dan!
Next up, I'll run ChangeShortUserName on the Mini -- probably this weekend, after backup and cloning the HD. Paranoid, moi?
I used Apple's Migration Assistant to move from by iBook to my Mac Mini a few weeks ago. I was generally pleased, but one thing annoyed me: my short user name ("apple") moved with it. It wasn't even a short user name I had chosen; it was one that was applied to the machine when the hard disk died (fortunately, while under AppleCare).
Anyway, it was too much to have not one but two machines with an annoying, inappropriate short name. Coincidentally, I found the ChangeShortUserName utility on the current MacAddict CD. Following all the appropriate steps, I ran the utility on the iBook, and it seems to have worked perfectly. The short user name on the iBook is now SandiBook. So thanks, Dan!
Next up, I'll run ChangeShortUserName on the Mini -- probably this weekend, after backup and cloning the HD. Paranoid, moi?
