Unable to delete user?...

[alexachucarro]

Got an 867. 1.5Gb, 60Gb.

Experienced with Macs, but not with Unix! Also, first time I've ever posted ANYTHING on the web! Jadey, mentioned that a similar thread need not be posted here.

Where then? Please help someone.

Alex

 

[jasmoe4]

Assuming you have a root user set up open terminal and type:

sudo rmdir -R "path of user's home you wish to delete"
type in root password

The path for the users home is usually:
sudo rmdir -R /Volumes/"name of HD"/Users/"name of user"

If your HD or user's home has spaces in the name don't forget to enclose the name with quotation marks. Be careful though, the command

rmdir -R

will delete everything in the directory, including other directories, so be sure that you've got the correct user's home defined. HTH.

 

[alexachucarro]

there's no way i'm dabbling with root access. but if that's the only way then i guess i'll have to. My HD is very neat. no stray files ANYWHERE!

By the way anyone, Wolfenstein at

apple.com/uk/macosx

is just the coolest online demo game ever.
Try it out, and thanks for the solution.

Alex

 

[Jadey]

You couldn't delete the user from the Users control panel? What was the error?

Also re: topic placement, I just meant that it should be in a different category. This is the Site News category. When you get to this site, click on "Mac Community" then there's a whole whack of forums to choose from in there. "MacOSX Troubleshooting" would be a good place for this ?.