Once you’ve made your choice, click the blue “Delete User” button to wrap up the process. Successfully Tested On: Mac OS X 10.11 - macOS 11.6.1 When using the Go -> Connect To Server option in Mac OS X, your computer account credentials may automatically be used to authenticate to the server. If you’d rather not touch the contents of that user account, you can select “Don’t Change The Home Folder.” However, if you’re sure you want to get rid of all data from that user account, you can pick “Delete The Home Folder.” Even if you just own a single Apple product, you’ve likely received lots of requests from Apple, in the form of pop-ups and notifications, to create new Apple ID. Now open a second Finder window and press Shift + Cmd + A to view the public Applications folder. Apps in your User account aren’t available to other accounts on your Mac. Press Shift + Cmd + H and open your private Applications folder. To do this, click “Save The Home Folder In A Disk Image.” Log in to the original user account on your Mac, then open a new Finder window. You can choose to retain its home folder as a disk image in the “Users” folder of your Mac. Similarly, once a file called test is created, attempts to create a second file. Now is the time to decide whether you want to retain some of the data associated with the outgoing user account. Attempts to open Test will fail with the error No such file or directory.
On the System Preferences screen, click on Users. Once you create a group from System Preferences > Users & Groups, it will show up below the list of user accounts. Click on the Apple Icon in the top menu bar of your Mac and then click on System Preferences in the drop down menu. To delete a user account from the Mac device, select the correct user name in the left pane and then click the “-” (minus) button below “Login Options.” Select the user account to change from the left side (choose the current user to change your own), you must have admin privileges to change other users profile pictures. Once you’ve ensured that it is an administrator, switch back to your account on the Mac and return to “Users & Groups” under “System Preferences.” Once again, click the lock icon in the bottom-left corner of this window, type your user account password, and click the blue “Unlock” button. Click the Lock icon in the lower-left corner of the Accounts. To make your account an administrator, click your user name in the left pane and check “Allow user to administer this computer.” Note that a restart is needed for these changes to take effect. Click Accounts or Users and Groups in the System panel, depending on your version of OS X.