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User 501 resists deletion
Speaking of times that System Prefs doesn't want to delete a user, I found recently that the first user I set up on a new Mac was a little hard to get rid of.
Well, I was supposed to be helping my family set up their new iMac, but instead I made a bit of a mess of it. Eventually we decided to make a new user and delete the users we had set up at the beginning, including the "original" user, with uid 501. The System Prefs panel wouldn't delete the user. It kept archiving that user's home directory and putting up a success message, as if everything were hunky-dory, but the user was still there, could still log in, etc. Eventually we went into NetInfo Manager and deleted it there. Then we struggled a bit with all the left-behind files belonging to user 501. Of course the whole thing is explained in the forums and we could have saved a lot of time... I'll never again do anything without checking the forums first! http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?s=7abf86b3c035fafe68a654e3cbe87b47&threadid=12077 Zach
User 501 resists deletion
Hi Zach,
User 501 resists deletion
Thanks. In fact, that's mentioned in the forum article that I included a link to, but it never hurts to have it mentioned again! |
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