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Can't Delete User Account

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Jakerz

macrumors regular
Original poster
Sep 2, 2010
113
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Atlanta
I upgraded to Lion on the day of release. Yesterday I decided to do a clean install. I used Migration Assistant to bring all my user, settings and apps over from Snow Leopard. The problem I am having is that I can not delete my Lion user. I have set the SL user that I migrated over as the Admin but I can not delete the Lion user. It will disappear from the User List but will come back after I reopen System Preferences.
 
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Graph101

macrumors newbie
Jun 29, 2010
22
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when i deleted my old username because files were corrupted, it took a very very long time to delete. im talking about 4hrs or so. i just left it while i transferred my files to the new username.
 
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jgonzo

macrumors member
Apr 26, 2009
68
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Jakerz said:
I upgraded to Lion on the day of release. Yesterday I decided to do a clean install. I used Migration Assistant to bring all my user, settings and apps over from Snow Leopard. The problem I am having is that I can not delete my Lion user. I have set the SL user that I migrated over as the Admin but I can not delete the Lion user. It will disappear from the User List but will come back after I reopen System Preferences.
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I am having a similar problem. Can't delete a user account in lion. It was created in lion. Any suggestions? Thanks!
 
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Michaelgtrusa

macrumors 604
Oct 13, 2008
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Graph101 said:
when i deleted my old username because files were corrupted, it took a very very long time to delete. im talking about 4hrs or so. i just left it while i transferred my files to the new username.
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I want to do this . How did you transfer the old files to the new acc?
 
Zephyre

Zephyre

macrumors newbie
Aug 22, 2011
16
6
Geelong, Australia
Jakerz said:
I upgraded to Lion on the day of release. Yesterday I decided to do a clean install. I used Migration Assistant to bring all my user, settings and apps over from Snow Leopard. The problem I am having is that I can not delete my Lion user. I have set the SL user that I migrated over as the Admin but I can not delete the Lion user. It will disappear from the User List but will come back after I reopen System Preferences.
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I have the same problem. Help :)
 
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