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My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition
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My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition

by Wallace Wang
August 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
512 pages
11h 9m
English
No Starch Press
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Deleting an Account

You can delete any accounts that you've created, but you don't want to delete all accounts or you won't be able to use your Macintosh. You can delete an account only from within an Administrator account.

When you delete an account, you have three choices in regard to saving the contents of the deleted account's home folder:

  • Save the home folder in a disk image This option saves all files in a single file called a disk image. A disk image stores multiple files in a single file so you can easily store and find this file again.

  • Don't change the home folder This option leaves all files created by that account stored in the Users folder.

  • Delete the home folder This option deletes all files created by that account.

If you want to delete ...

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