[canadave]

Hi all,

I just got a spiffy new hard drive for my Mac Pro (running 10.5 OSX) to use as my new boot drive. After installing Leopard on the new drive, I copied the brand-new Users folder to my old boot drive (which has now become my "data repository" drive) by changing the path in the Login Accounts "Advanced Options" panel. At that point I had two Users folders--the "real one" on my data drive that my account points to, and the now-unused "new one" on my new boot drive that I had copied from.

Now, what I want to know is, can I safely hide, rename, or delete the unused Users folder that got installed on my new boot drive? It's confusing to have it alongside the real Users folder that exists on the other drive. I'm not sure if it's still needed for anything.

[Big Mac]

Yes, there should be no problem with trashing an unused account folder.

[canadave]

Thanks very much--that's what I thought Now....how do I do that? I don't seem to be able to delete it even after giving admin read/write permissions on it.

[Big Mac]

Are you comfortable using Terminal?

[Simon]

Originally Posted by canadave 

Thanks very much--that's what I thought Now....how do I do that? I don't seem to be able to delete it even after giving admin read/write permissions on it.

Open a terminal window.

cd /Users/
rm -rf foo

where 'foo' is the name of the user account you're trying to delete. The first command moves you to the parent folder, the second one irreversibly deletes the old user account folder. The rm command should never contain a path so that's why the first command is required.

[canadave]

Thanks guys. I'm very comfortable using Terminal (I'm an old DOS/UNIX dinosaur)...just wasn't sure of the command.

I tried the rm -rf command, and I keep getting Permission Denied, no can do.

[Simon]

sudo rm -rf foo

Then enter your admin password. Sudo will execute the rm command with superuser permissions.

[Camali]

WHere do you see this option to change the user path?