Need to find my original user name My old imac with Snow Leopard 10.6.8 was super slow.
I decided to do a clean install after backing up on Time Machine.  When I reinstalled Snow Leopard, it asked for an account name so I just put in a logical one.  I then went to TM and found that none of the files I wanted were there.  Reading info about this, it seems I made a new account and that if I can rename the account to the original name, I may be able to get to those files.
Unfortunately, I cant recall my old account name.  

Any ideas?
You should be able to list all user home folders on the backup by running

ls -l /Volumes/Time\ Machine/Backups.backupdb/*/Latest/*/Users/


in Terminal. This assumes your TM backup drive is called Time Machine, replace the name if it is called differently.