Comments on: Mac OSX: Delete a user account

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:55:08 +0000

Well, like Joe, I’ve been waiting over 30 minutes for a small (300Mb) account to be deleted. It’s terribly slow.

Waiting waiting waiting… Did Jim Morrison have a premonition of this process?

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:27:31 +0000

Ultimate fail… Just as a posted that last comment it finished deleting. (LOL)

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:25:27 +0000

I did this but it’s taking ages to delete the account. It says “Deleting Account…” under the account I’m trying to delete, and has done for around 20 minutes. Any idea on how long this will take?

By: Radicaljacket1953

Radicaljacket1953 — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 07:31:00 +0000

Having trouble deleting an old account with iTunes. Have software to download, but is attached to an old mac account. How can i cancel the old account, without compromising my new account. They inform me that I have multiple accounts. Such a blow on OS X Lion

By: Chazsibo

Chazsibo — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:51:00 +0000

what happens if there is no – sign under login options

By: Ernie

Ernie — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:27:00 +0000

I deleted users on my Mac, but still say’s I only have 59 gigs available and i cannot find /Users/Deleted Users/userid.dmg file anywhere please help.

By: Sas

Sas — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:46:00 +0000

Did you click on the lock below and now it shows a lock unlocked?

By: Jpp4053

Jpp4053 — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 03:05:00 +0000

Answer to query never found. Standard (?) User Account grayed out-unable to delete. Went through all “Delete” steps without success. This Standard User Account remains grayed out along with the – (minus,delete) symbol. Extremely frustrating.

By: Sir Phit

Sir Phit — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:30:00 +0000

ok well i had 2 admin user accounts and have been trying to remove the one.
i have taken away admin rights
however even after loggin in and out of the account i want to remove(as it told me i had to to make it set in that i had removed admin powers)
now thing is i can’t delete that account at all!
if i log into it and go to the preferences pain and unlock it i dont get the minus buton, adn if i’m in my main account i cant even highlight that specific user so there fore i cant click the minus and make it go away
i want it gone! it did it’s job and has finished it’s job now i want it to go away.
please help me!?!?!?!

By: Sir Phit

Sir Phit — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:27:00 +0000

use an external harddrive or a thumb drive to transfer them form one account to the other
the other option is u can click on something so u can share between user accounts(public folder drop box for example also works i think for transfering files between users)
i’m no expert tho as my question shall clearly state