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A caution on network-based aliases and the sidebar
Authored by: tpb on Thu, Nov 8 2007 at 11:56PM PST

This is a valuable hint, but not very new indeed. About two years ago I ruined my home folder by renaming it via the sidebar from a remote machine. Next time I rebooted my dear old iBook, my account had disappeared! Great way to test your crisis handling capacity... Luckily all was saved by simply restoring the home folder's name.