Q: Corrupted User on Mavericks, I removed his local and network account, removed his Home Folder, but he has time machine running, when he logs in to create a new profile his former profile loads, can it be pulling this from Time Machine automatically?
I have a user on Mavericks 10.9.5 on a Mac Pro previous hardware Gen... His user profile appeared to be corrupted, user has / had local admin rights,
had also a local user account along with his network account. To eliminate profile issues, using Root account removed user accounts both local and network and deleted Home Folders for both.
User logs in and his former "Deleted" profile loads back up, but when you look in Users and Groups his account does not show up in the system.
Only account that shows is Administrator and Guest
Also using terminal and the dscl command user does not show up in the system.
Did a full disk verify and repair and also did a disk permissions and repair on the system. No issues found on either.
Did a repair install of Mavericks to see if that fixed it. Install worked no problems found.
Issue still appears, any idea how this "Ghost Profile" is showing up and working?
User also has 2 more external HD's one has a backup of an old 10.6 installation for archive purposes that is only used to browse old client files.
the other is a Time Machine backup of current PC.
Can the system be pulling his profile from Time Machine somehow?
Chris
Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
Posted on Oct 29, 2015 10:01 AM