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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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Everybody knows changing the long name is just a walk in a park. Just typing a new name in System Preferences > Accounts. However, short name isn’t quite the same. I have seen some of my friends just brutally try to change that by renaming the folder and the whole system went sideways. Consequently, had to reinstall the whole system.

From what i’ve discovered, in order to change the short name, there are two ways to do it. One is to create a new account and transfering all the previous system data into the new created account. For example, create a new desire user name and then copy the old user’s Home directory contents into that of the new user account. Read more how to proceed in step-by-step from Apple

Another way to change the short name is for more advanced user which involves a lot of command code typing in the Unix terminal. However, typing is all you need to do. You don’t need to transfer anything with this method. Fortunately, there’s a little cool software that can manage this task for you. Just go to: http://www.danfrakes.com/  Don’t worry, it’s totally free.

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