Made a mess with Migration Assistant, Two user accounts. Help!

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Made a mess with Migration Assistant, Two user accounts. Help!

I got a new MacBook Pro Retina with Yosemite. Tried to use migration assistant to take files from my old 2008 MacBook (I only wanted photos, videos, music and documents - no applications, etc). After an excrutiatingly long time, I've made a mess of my new MacBook Pro. I now have two user accounts with my name. How do I delete the second? I have tried going into system preferences > users and push the delete key. This DOES NOT work! It makes that ping noise. I am computer slow so please help me with step by step directions on how to delete the extra user.
Also, I have now realized that this awful new MacBook Pro Retina has no disc drive and I have a 2008 Microsoft word CD I want to install. What can I do here?

For the record, I'm hating this new computer.

Thank you guys!

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Feb 16, 2015 7:38 AM

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Answer 1

QuickPost

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Feb 16, 2015 7:48 AM in response to daniellea2006

Make sure you are not logged into the account you are trying to delete. Log into the account you are wanting to keep and make sure it is set as an administrator account. Then you should be able to remove the secondary account. If that still doesn't work then check to see if the little pad lock in the lower left hand corner of System Preferences is unlocked.

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Answer 2

Niel

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Feb 16, 2015 7:50 AM in response to daniellea2006

1. Log out of the account you want to delete, unlock the Users & Groups pane, select it, and then delete it.

2. Use an external optical drive such as Apple's USB SuperDrive, or one inside another computer.

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Answer 3

Feb 16, 2015 8:01 AM in response to Niel

I am logged into the account I want to keep. I have made the other account not an admin (it now says "Standard"). The lock is unlocked. When I click that user and press delete, I get a ping noise. It will not delete!

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Feb 16, 2015 8:04 AM in response to daniellea2006

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Answer 5

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Feb 16, 2015 8:06 AM in response to daniellea2006

This will sound like a cop out answer but reboot the computer and log in to the account you want to keep and attempt it to remove the other one. It is possible that you are logged into the other account in the background and rebooting will force log out of any processes started by that account.

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Answer 6

Feb 16, 2015 2:53 PM in response to daniellea2006

Just wanted to update for anyone else who sees this & may have the same problem... on the picture I previously posted, there is a + and - sign at the bottom left. Clicking the - sign gave me the option to delete the account! Thanks guys! 🙂

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