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Confusion about users

I'm confused about how users are set up on my machine.


I had to do a find for a folder and it showed up in the library of the deleted user teryt. I thought teryt was an active user because it shows up in my sidebar and in a search:


User uploaded file


But teryt also shows up as a deleted user:

User uploaded file


User uploaded file


So I went into System Preferences to see what that showed, and teryt is not even there:

User uploaded file


I'm not sure if this is important or how it happened and not sure what I should do about it, if anything.

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)

Posted on May 16, 2016 7:18 PM

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Posted on May 16, 2016 9:27 PM

In that screen shot, You are only showing the full name. teryt is a short user name which is also used for the home folder name. Is teryt the short user name for that account?


it is possible that you deleted the account, then created a new one with same name.

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Confusion about users

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