Q: Backup and delete old admin user account
Hi. An Apple Advisor (level 2) helped me to clean my Mavericks system, among other actions he asked me to create a new admin user. I think it's time to delete the old one, but Mavericks don't agree the backing up of the old user account (Home) before deleting it.
- I tried to find all files with Old-User ownership and change their permissions to the New owner. But Mavericks still say no.
The .dmg is created but not kept.
Why I want to do that ? An unknown and unwanted app is probably running backwards, I can't find it and delete it on this cleaned install...
it like a windows manager app. like "size up". I will look in the process manager.
Don't blame me about my language please, The "Apple Support Communities" does'nt deal with French. Alas
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), Apple care mid 2011
Posted on Dec 29, 2013 6:36 AM
You mean, the creation of a dmg file containing the user folder (like shown on the second screenshot in your first post) ?
Well, I can remember it failed once for me (in OS X Leopard, if I remember well). But I had to use that feature several times in the past, and it usually works quite well ...
Posted on Jan 11, 2014 12:46 AM