Creating a new user profile with the same user profile folder name

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If I want to revert macOS settings or maybe to fix some of its bugs, I may decide to create a new user profile.

My name is John and the name of my user profile folder is just that, john. That is, when creating a new user profile, I have two options:

  • to give its folder a different name (e.g., johndoe),
  • or get the old name of the user profile folder using a temporary user profile, that is, to create john123, log in, delete john, create fresh new john, log in into john, delete john123.

Is there a more straighforward way?

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Rename the exiting folder and create the new one as “john”?

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