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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1267576"><p>I'm not sure what happened, but at a guess I'd say you "ejected" those hard drives incorrectly, screwing up the directory. When OS X runs across a user directory it can't read properly, it creates a new user so it can complete the boot process.</p><p></p><p>I'd avoid working with the machine as much as possible until you can get home and restore from your backup, which will be the safest way to correct this problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1267576"] I'm not sure what happened, but at a guess I'd say you "ejected" those hard drives incorrectly, screwing up the directory. When OS X runs across a user directory it can't read properly, it creates a new user so it can complete the boot process. I'd avoid working with the machine as much as possible until you can get home and restore from your backup, which will be the safest way to correct this problem. [/QUOTE]
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