Tried to delete a user in preferences 8 hours ago and still cannot close preference because it says "User & group preferences is removing a user account & saving the home directory to a disk image". Do I need to insert a disk?
iMac (24-inch Mid 2007), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
It will be making a disk image on the internal hard disk drive, is there enough room on your hard drive for that to occur?
Thanks for replying! It says that I have 796 GB available on my Mac HD. Checking Finder under deleted users it indicates that the user I am trying to delete file size is almost 17 GB.
It seems a long time to do that, as an aside was there a reason you chose to delete the user but save the home folder.
Is the 17GB getting bigger or as it stopped at that size for a while, if it is not growing you may have to force quit system preferences. I don't like to do that but occasionally it happens.
Checking finder, I see the file size has not changed.
I created the user "test" when Apple tech support had me do so while trying to resolve a problem with a brand new iPad refusing to back up to my computer. We resolved that problem last week so I wanted to delete "test".
I am not sure I understand your question about deleting the user but saving the home folder. I had 2 users on this computer, myself and one other person plus guest. I am the administrator. The test user was only created recently. I opened preferences earlier, highlighted test and clicked the minus sign.
So do you think I should force quit preferences?
So I forced quit then shut down the Mac. Next day restarted and "test" user was still there. So I went into finder and deleted the user "test" files after changing "test" from an administrator to a standard user in preferences. Then going back to preferences the user "test" was deleted in seconds. Thanks for your help rack0 tack0!
Preferences and User deletion
