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I recently upgraded my ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10, but while playing around trying to restore the GNOME classic (I really don't like the unity), I screwed something up. Ubuntu did not came back after restarting... I was stuck.



So I burned an installation CD and reinstalled Ubuntu (upgrade from 11.10 to 11.10) so the data was saved. However, I used a different username on installation by mistake, and now I've got two home folders: /home/new_user/ and /home/old_user/.



The old_user is not registered as a user (it's not listed in the LightDM login screen), and I really just need one user, with my old data and configuration.



So: is there a quick way to fix it? As in, get my old_user to be the only user with all my settings back?



Thank you.


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The best option would be indeed to turn the new user into the old user.



Have a look at the /etc/passwd file:



new_user:x:1000:1000:New User,,,:/home/new_user:/bin/bash


Edit this line only as root to:



old_user:x:1000:1000:Old User,,,:/home/old_user:/bin/bash


Then reset the old users password: passwd old_user as root.


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