Help! Lost my user account!

OK, I do NOT like drag and drop.

I have a long story, but I will boil it down. I was trying to drag and drop the User name from under "Places" in Finder into a terminal window, but ran out of space on the track pad and accidentally dropped it somewhere else. Now the user name is gone from Places. How do I get it back!?

Use your Spotlight search to locate it and put it back in places under the Finder where it belongs. Why were you moving it to a Terminal window?

Regards.

OK, whew! That got it back ... thank you! I don't think I messed anything else up.

I was trying to follow these instructions:

http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/switcher-hangout/129473-batch-edit-file-privileges.html#post753942

I have a lot of files that I need to make read/write for Everyone on a network and was trying to use chmod, but it's just not working right for me. It keeps telling there is no such directory. Is there a way without using terminal that I can batch change a bunch of file permissions?

Try BatChmod,
BatChmod

McYukon said:

Try BatChmod,
BatChmod

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Thanks, I'll give it a try ... but why do you have to resort to a third party program or terminal to change a file's properties like this?

Well if you just want to do one file it's easy enough, command+i and under "Sharing & Permissions" change them.
It's just with lots of files that you need something different.

OK, thanks ... BatChMod did the trick! I was able to copy the files over once I'd set the permissions. But I still think that should be a basic functionality.

Anyway, all's well that end's well!