My New Mac, Lion Edition

Deleting an Account

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.

Note

You can also select the Erase Home folder securely checkbox, which not only erases the Home folder but overwrites the Home folder data with random information ...