How do I delete all addresses from my email contacts list/

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How do I delete all addresses from my email contacts list/

Hi all.

I am about to give this Mac to my daughter and before I do that I would like to clean some stuff from it. One of those items is the contents of the Address Book.

How wold I go about doing that?

Anything else I should get rid of, if so what, and how would I go about doing just that?

Regards

eMac Power Mac 6.4, Mac OS X (10.5.7), Kernel Version Darwin 9.7.0

Posted on Feb 14, 2010 8:12 PM

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Answer 1

Kappy

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Feb 14, 2010 8:18 PM in response to Janset

Create a new admin user in Accounts preferences for your daughter to use. Log into this new account and use Accounts preferences to set it to be the new account for auto-login. Then delete your old account. This will wipe out your entire old Home folder. She can create her own new address book, email account, calendars, etc. in her new account.

Be sure to ask her in advance what username to use for the new account because that is not easy to change once set.

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Janset Author

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Feb 14, 2010 9:11 PM in response to Kappy

Thanks Kappy.

I have created a new admin account for my daughters and tested it using the supplied pass word she gave me and all appears to be working o.K.

Now I ask my silly question. How do I delete my admin account, what do I click on and how do I get there to perform this task?

Regards

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Answer 3

roam

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Feb 14, 2010 10:56 PM in response to Janset

Seeing as we are in similar timezones, I'll jump in here.

You would delete your old account from within the new Admin account you just created.
So logged into your daughter's account, go to System Preferences, Accounts, and click on the padlock to unlock it, by supplying the password.
Then select your old account, and press the - (minus) sign, down the bottom, to remove it.

Now there is just her account.

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Janset Author

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Feb 15, 2010 1:42 AM in response to roam

Thanks guys, both of you have been great. I will give Roam's advice a go after my evening meal. Roam, we live in W.A., can we fix an email address should my daughter wish to contact you direct?

Regars

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Answer 5

roam

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Feb 15, 2010 2:02 AM in response to Janset

Like many here, I do not provide an email address. Our communication will be via this forum.
As I am in Melbourne, our clocks are only 3 hrs apart, so if you have any questions just post again. This is your topic after all. Post to it as much as you need.

There's nothing on telly so I'll be hanging around here for a few hours yet. 🙂

What is your computer now, that replaced the eMac?

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Janset Author

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Feb 15, 2010 3:40 AM in response to roam

Hi Roam.

Message understood.

I managed to delete me and substitute her as Administrator. Thanks.

you ask what machine I am now using, I am a Windows man, currently using XP Pro SP3 and have been for 10 years. A friend from the Education Dept gave me a phased out Mac with OS X in an endeavor to convert me.

At first I was very impressed but as time went on I found that the Mac was not as user friendly as I had thought. The terminology was foreign to me, and where Windows placed thing automatically into place, with Mac I had to physically pick up and re-locate programs.

But what really turned me off was that nearly every thing that I wanted to do I had to go to the net and try and find drivers or whatever to overcome my problems.

A point in question, I purchased an external USB dual layer DVD burner. When connected to XP, it was recognized instantly and within a few minutes I as up and going. With the Mac, it is not even recognized let alone getting it to work!

And then there are all the other little things like printing. In windows every thing from every page I can print, Ctrl + P. With the Mac, I am still trying to find out how to print a page from the Help menu.

Enough said. My daughter is interested and that is all that counts. Let her work it all out, she is smarter (an younger) than me.

Regards

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Answer 7

roam

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Feb 15, 2010 3:58 AM in response to Janset

Hi Janset

Yes, the younger ones are smarter, but we're wiser aren't we. Least that is supposed to be how it goes.

I started on a Mac, went to windows and then back to a Mac, but as you say after 10 years on something you become pretty familiar with it. Still it is amazing how things can bend. My HP LaserJet 4 originally came with DOS drivers on 3.5" disks and has been happily adapted to various Macs over the years. Now running on Leopard.

Printing a help window. I have never tried it until now, and take your point. 🙂 can't do it without a copy and paste.

I am glad all is well. Have your daughter set up an Apple Discussions account for any queries she may have in the future, and best wishes to all West Australians whose resources are keeping us above water.

All the best,
regards roam

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Janset Author

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Feb 15, 2010 4:07 AM in response to roam

Hi Roam.

Yep, let's hope the economy continues to grow as my Super has taken a bit of a beating with the downturn.

If my daughter does ask a few questions, it will be with my handle so that she can access my past inquiries with ease.

Regards

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