[X4U] Changing short and long names

Linda XPressoBean at mac.com
Tue Feb 20 07:09:30 PST 2007


On 2/20/07 8:48 AM, Daly Jessup wrote:

> There is a utility for doing it, but I
> don't think it works in Tiger.

<http://homepage.mac.com/frakes/MOSXPT/content/shortusername.html>

>From that website: 

> IMPORTANT! You must read the documentation included with ChangeShortName
> before using it!
> 
> NOTE: ChangeShortName 1.2 is compatible with Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4). Note that
> there are a couple minor cosmetic issues that are described in the ReadMe
> file. 

I used it on a Quicksilver running OS X 10.4 last December. 




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