With Leopard, when you deleted a user account you will get a message asking if you want to delete the user’s folder as well. That’s really neat. However, for people who are still on Panther and Tiger for any necessary reasons, to deleted a user’s folder will need to know a little trick.
If your mac used to have more than 1 user account and after deleted one of them. If you are not on Leopard, you will see that the folder that belong to the deleted user still remains intact and can’t be deleted easily. Although, dragging the folder directly to trash doesn’t solve the problem.
Regardless of the deletion of unwanted user account, you mac remembers that the folder used to belong to a user and therefore won’t let you delete or even touch it. Unless, you force it to. To delete that unwanted user folder after the user account was deleted, open up Terminal and type the following command:
sudo rm -R /Users/’usernamehere deleted’
The above command will replace the user name with the user’s actual name and delete it.
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