subject: Renaming The Home Directory Cause Data Loss In Mac Os X [print this page] In Mac OS X, a home directory is automatically created when you create a new user. The home directories are stored in Users folder at root of Mac hard drive. In other words, home directory is an area of Mac OS X file system that is accessible for a particular user. You can keep all your confidential data in this directory as others users do not have read/write permissions for it. In Mac OS X 10.3 and later versions, you are allowed to rename to home directory as per your requirements, even without having authentication details. But in some cases, it may cause corruption to the Home directory and lead to data loss. In such circumstance, you need to go for Mac Data Recovery to extract lost data.
The Home directory allows you the extrication of the user data from system data and thus avoids the redundancy of data. It makes the file management operations easy for you. Separating the system data from user data also enhances the system performance. Home directory mechanism makes your data safe from unauthorized access.
Although, this is useful to rename your home directory in some cases, but it is not safe. If you rename the home directory, the contents and preferences of this directory may appear to be missing when you log into the account after rebooting your system. The sub folders of home directory seems empty and the applications are using default preferences.
Due to some technical reasons, you are not recommended to rename Mac OS X home directory unless this is extremely necessary. You are suggested to create a complete backup of all your significant data, before you rename the home directory.
If you forget to backup data before renaming the home directory and something goes wrong, data loss may occur. Depending upon the gravity of the situation, data loss can cost you a lot. Losing business-critical accounting data, client projects, and financial reports can not be accepted at any cost and Data Recovery Mac becomes need of hour.
The Mac Recovery is best possible with the help of powerful and effective third-party applications. The tools are known as Mac Recovery Software, which methodically scan the affected media and extract all lost data from it. You need not to be technically sound to use these tools as they have graphical rich user interface.
Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery is the most advanced tool for assured recovery of lost data in all data loss situations. The software works well with Mac OS X 10.6, 10.5, 10.4, and 10.3.9. It recovers data from HFS, HFS+, HFSX, HFS Wrapper, and FAT file system volumes.
