# Change username? Is it possible? **URL:** \ **Category:** ℹ️ Support\ **Created:** [February 4, 2021, 9:23am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/change-username-is-it-possible/106759 "2021-02-04T09:23:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wisdomlight](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/wisdomlight/32/12911_2.png) [@wisdomlight](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/wisdomlight)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2021, 9:23am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/change-username-is-it-possible/106759/1 "2021-02-04T09:23:59Z")
I created a number of usernames with space in the middle like this This creates a problem - they cannot be mentioned in comments, they come up as usernotknown Can this be fixed? Any other work around this issue? Thank you ---
**Author:** ![OliverV](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/oliverv/32/5741_2.png) [@OliverV](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/OliverV)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2021, 6:07pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/change-username-is-it-possible/106759/2 "2021-02-04T18:07:53Z")
> [@wisdomlight](#): > > like this Like what? No backgroun info on setup, any logs showing errors, Created users how and where? ---
**Author:** ![szaimen](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/szaimen/32/63019_2.png) [@szaimen](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/szaimen)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2021, 6:15pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/change-username-is-it-possible/106759/3 "2021-02-04T18:15:21Z")
> > > How to use GitHub > Please use the 👍 reaction to show that you are interested into the same feature. > Please don't comment if... > > > Hi, > I would like to rename/change my login name and we can't do that for now on Nextcloud. > Can you support it? > For now: > Each... ---
**Author:** ![wisdomlight](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/wisdomlight/32/12911_2.png) [@wisdomlight](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/wisdomlight)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2021, 6:33pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/change-username-is-it-possible/106759/4 "2021-02-04T18:33:03Z")
Yeah - I thought I had a link Anyhow - it turns out that what I want is not possible. Here’s [a link](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/suggestion-re-username/106814) to a suggestion I made about this topic in the Development Channel of this forum It gives a different link to migrating users and recreating them. ---
**Author:** ![wisdomlight](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/wisdomlight/32/12911_2.png) [@wisdomlight](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/wisdomlight)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2021, 6:38pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/change-username-is-it-possible/106759/5 "2021-02-04T18:38:05Z")
Thank you - yes its helpful in hindsight. I suggested in the Development channel that the registartion process does not accept a username with space in the middle. Cheers ---
**Author:** ![wisdomlight](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/wisdomlight/32/12911_2.png) [@wisdomlight](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/wisdomlight)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2021, 7:29pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/change-username-is-it-possible/106759/6 "2021-02-04T19:29:13Z")
Hmm I just wouldn’t know how to collect the log files. where from . apologies for that ---
**Author:** ![OliverV](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/oliverv/32/5741_2.png) [@OliverV](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/OliverV)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2021, 7:35pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/change-username-is-it-possible/106759/7 "2021-02-04T19:35:44Z")
Anyway, you have answer to your question: changing username is not supported by NC Only workaround I can think of is : create a newuser, cp all nc/data/olduser/files to newuser/files. run fix-permissions an scan --all. If all files are okay, then can remove olduser and olduser/files. ---
**Author:** ![wisdomlight](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/wisdomlight/32/12911_2.png) [@wisdomlight](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/wisdomlight)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2021, 7:40pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/change-username-is-it-possible/106759/8 "2021-02-04T19:40:35Z")
ok thank you I appreciate your help just one more little question - where is nc folder located?? is it in var or in home?? I thought it was in var/www/nextcloud/data/ I can only see the ncp dir but I can’t find the users dirs ---
**Author:** ![OliverV](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/oliverv/32/5741_2.png) [@OliverV](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/OliverV)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2021, 3:59pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/change-username-is-it-possible/106759/9 "2021-02-05T15:59:38Z")
The path to NC’s datadir is set in /var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php ---
**Author:** ![dolphinscorp](https://help.nextcloud.com/letter_avatar/dolphinscorp/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@dolphinscorp](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/dolphinscorp)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 10:05am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/change-username-is-it-possible/106759/10 "2022-12-29T10:05:39Z")
What about talk chat history if we go through this option? I tested this option, no chat history there ---
**Author:** ![wwe](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/wwe/32/72963_2.png) [@wwe](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/wwe)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 3:53pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/change-username-is-it-possible/106759/11 "2024-12-14T15:53:02Z")