ebay mac mini

topic posted Sun, October 5, 2008 - 7:01 PM by  Nathan
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i just got a used mac mini off ebay. my gole is to do a convershion putting the mini into a cube but while i study up on that i may as well get use out of the mini. So i have changed the admin all the pass words but i'm not sure why i can't change the home folder. When i atempt to it says It "can't be modified or deleted because it is required by mac osx" PLEASE help i don't want to turn on my mac and remember that someone else used it for 2 monthes before me.
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Nathan
Tampa Bay Area
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    Mon, October 6, 2008 - 11:42 AM
    The home folder uses the Unix "short name" and the machine is trying to protect you from yourself here. It is exponentially simpler to go to the upper-left "apple menu" and down to System Preferences... for "Accounts" to create a new account.

    Be sure to make your new user an administrator and then, when you have moved everything you want, delete the original account.

    You can change the "machine name" in the "Sharing" preference pane.