User profile corrupt - blank account name

rjschie

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So I have a user in my account settings: ".testUser".

Whenever I try to delete this user, it doesn't delete. And it's name changes to nothing, it's blank. After I do that I cannot right-click and go to advanced options, I cannot reset password, I cannot change pictures, nothing.

If I close and restart the accounts preferences then it shows up again as ".testUser" and I can do all of those things. If I change anything now it will go back to being blank again.

Also, I have created test users before with a dot in front of it's name and deleted those plenty of times so I don't see how it's the name.

I just want to delete this user. I have tried the terminal command "dscl . delete /Users/.testUser" but that just gives me an error, saying it cannot find that user or something. I have also tried doing all of the above in root.

Thank you.
 
Well, I think that I may be able to dscl delete my user, but unfortunately it can't find my user record. I think that this may be because of the "." in my name.

Does anyone know how to enter this properly into the terminal? Or possibly a better solution?

Thanks.
 
Hmm, alright, I tried that but the record is still not found. Which is weird because if I do:

Code:
dscl . list /users

It's the very first user listed.

I just don't understand how I'm supposed to delete it. I might have to reinstall the OS this weekend.
 
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