> usermod -d “/home/current_user-name”

should be:

usermod -d “/home/new_user-name”

Tried it as user Root and another Privileged user so I wasn’t logged in to the account I was trying to rename and move.

Got Directory not found when the command tried to create the new_user directory. I created the new directory and still no transfer of files from current_user directory.

May have read it wrong but while looking for additional solutions that would work… other sites instruct the -l current_user and new_user command to be swapped from your instructions when renaming the user. Using the usermod -l command I can get it to rename back and forth but using your instructions I could not get it to move any directory content

Was there additional instructions that I missed somewhere?

Not a crisis here as I finally gave up and did a new install but I would like to learn what I did wrong.

should be opposite