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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1864043" data-attributes="member: 396914">OK, your system is seriously mucked up. You should never be able to boot from Data. Data is for Users data only, not any system files. If you have a good backup (I'd check it very, very carefully) I think it's time to do what Bob recommended. Wipe out the drive and start all over. Your name changing, boot changing, whatever has spread everything all over the place. But before you do that make sure the backup is good. If it isn't you will lose everything. If you do what Bob suggests, on the first boot of the newly installed system you will be offered an opportunity to restore data from a backup. Take that offer and then point to the TM backup. Once the migration is complete, you should be able to log into the same account that you are using now, and all of your stuff should be there. But check that backup first, before you do anything, to make sure all of your files are there. Then check again. Can't be too careful, you are about to wipe the drive clean, deleting everything, so before you let go of that rung of the ladder, make sure you have a good grip on the next rung (that backup).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1864043, member: 396914"] OK, your system is seriously mucked up. You should never be able to boot from Data. Data is for Users data only, not any system files. If you have a good backup (I'd check it very, very carefully) I think it's time to do what Bob recommended. Wipe out the drive and start all over. Your name changing, boot changing, whatever has spread everything all over the place. But before you do that make sure the backup is good. If it isn't you will lose everything. If you do what Bob suggests, on the first boot of the newly installed system you will be offered an opportunity to restore data from a backup. Take that offer and then point to the TM backup. Once the migration is complete, you should be able to log into the same account that you are using now, and all of your stuff should be there. But check that backup first, before you do anything, to make sure all of your files are there. Then check again. Can't be too careful, you are about to wipe the drive clean, deleting everything, so before you let go of that rung of the ladder, make sure you have a good grip on the next rung (that backup). [/QUOTE]

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