Ok so I realized that I only have 15 GB left so I went through and moved all the files I want to keep onto a external hard drive then was going to format my HDD, reinstall snow leopard then put the files back, 'cause I thought that formatting it would befaster than deleting over 120GB of stuff in the trash. But I can't find my snow leopard disk so I was thinking of creating a new account then deleting the one I use now. So I guess my question is would this work and will I gain back all of the space on my hard drive.
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If I remove a account from my computer will it remove every file compleatly?
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In Mac OS X, how do I create and delete users?
Deleting an account will remove the home folder (Macintosh HD / Users / account (home folder)), thus every file in there will be deleted.
Deleting an account will remove the home folder (Macintosh HD / Users / account (home folder)), thus every file in there will be deleted.
User accounts are stored in Macintosh HD / Users /. The system-wide Library, Applications and Developer folders are located at Macintosh HD / :
Macintosh HD / Library
Macintosh HD / Applications
Macintosh HD / Developer
So if you delete a folder insider Macintosh HD / Users / you won't delete a folder outside the Macintosh HD / Users / folder.
Mac OS X Directory Structure explained