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Old September 24th, 2002, 04:50 PM
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Exclamation cleaning old users

hi
i have a little problem in osx now

had made a 3rd user for a long time. last time i deleted it in the system pref panel and all seams ok. but the folder in the users folder is still there. tread batchmod allready but the folder can't be deleted.

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Old September 24th, 2002, 08:52 PM
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open up the terminal, and as long as you are an admin type the following:

sudo rm -r

then one space, then drag the folder that you want deleted to the terminal (that will put the path in automatically) and hit enter, it should ask for a password, and then it will be gone...
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