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Do you want to delete a user on your Mac to make way for storage space, revoke access, or to clear up some confusion? Deleting a user account is easy, but you need to carefully plan what you’re going to do with the files associated with the account, especially if there is sensitive information saved. With this article, we will show you how to delete a user on Mac, and what process you need to go through along the way.

Many Mac users will have dozens or even hundreds of apps installed on their computer. Occasionally, it’s desirable to uninstall unwanted or troublesome apps, or simply those which are taking up too much disk space and cluttering up your hard drive. Uninstalling applications in all versions of Mac OS X can be accomplished with relative ease,.

How to Delete a User on Mac

To delete a user on Mac, follow these steps:

• Use your admin account. You can’t do anything to your computer without administrator access. Make sure that you are using an administrator account before proceeding. To do this, log in using the administrator account and password on your Mac. How do you know if you’re using an administrator account? Go to System Preferences > Users & Groups where you will see the list of user accounts on the left side of the window. The administrator account is labeled as Admin.

• Once you are in Users & Groups, click the gold lock icon on the bottom left of the window. This allows you to make permanent changes to the user accounts on your Mac. When you click on the lock icon, you will be asked to log in using the administrator login details. Type in your administrator password (the username is already pre-populated), then click Unlock. You can now then make changes to the user accounts.

• Once the lock icon is unlocked, you will have access to the other users and make the necessary changes. You can also see which user account you are signed in with, which is the admin account. Take note, however, that you cannot delete the admin user. You will see that the (—) button is grayed out. From the list of user accounts, choose which one you want to delete.
• When you click the user account, you will see all the information regarding that account. To delete this profile, click the minus (—) sign at the bottom of the list of user accounts. This will remove that particular user account from your Mac. After clicking the minus button, a message will pop up confirming that you want to delete that user account. The window will also provide you options with what to do with the home folder of that user profile. You have three options:
  • Save it in a disk image which you’ll be able to access in the Deleted Users folder. You can choose this option if you want to keep the general data associated with the profile you are deleting.
  • Keep the home folder as it is. This means that all the data related to that user account will still be kept in Users folder under the same username. If you have plans to restore the deleted user profile in the future, this option will let you continue from where you left off before the deletion.
  • Delete the home folder completely. If you have no use for the data any more or you want to get back some storage space, then it totally makes sense to get rid of the data altogether.
• Once you’ve decided what to do with the home folder, click Delete User.
• Take note, however, that if the user account is only sharing access to your Mac, then these options won’t be available because their data is saved somewhere else.
• Once you’ve clicked Delete User, you will see the message Deleting account under the user account, which means that the deletion process is underway. The process will be complete when the user account disappears from the user’s list on the left side of the window.

Extra Tips:

If many people need to access your Mac for a particular reason (for work or for a project), it’s a good idea to create a sharing-only guest profile. With this profile, users will be able to access shared files remotely, but won’t have the power to log in or change the settings on your Mac. You can also choose to rename the user account if somebody else is going to use it and will be needing the data from the previous account.

Deleting a user on your Mac is a straightforward process, the only challenge lies in deciding what to do with the user files. You need to choose whether you want to keep the user files or delete them. If you decided to delete them, you could take that step to another level by removing all the junk files on your computer using Tweakbit MacRepair. It scans and deletes all unnecessary files on your computer to avoid clutter and improve performance.

Over time, our Macs can become full of apps that we no longer use, have stopped working, or that we never really needed in the first place. Getting rid of these apps is a simple matter, but there are different ways to go about it.

Here is how you delete apps from your Mac.

How to delete apps downloaded from the Mac App Store

Deleting an app you downloaded from the Mac App Store is a lot like deleting an app from your iPhone.

1. Open Launchpad on your Mac. This can be done by clicking the Launchpad icon on your Dock, tapping F4 in the function row, or performing a four-finger pinch on your Mac's trackpad.

2. Find the app downloaded from the Mac App Store that you want to remove.

3. Click and hold on the app's icon until it enters jiggly mode.

4. Click the 'X' that appears in the upper left corner of the app icon.

5. Click Delete when prompted.

How to delete non-App Store apps in the Finder

For those apps that you've downloaded from the web, here's how you get rid of them using Finder.

1. Click on the Finder icon in the Dock to open a Finder window.

2. Click Applications in the sidebar.

3. Scroll through the list until you find the app you want to remove. You can also search for it.

4. Right click on the app.

5. Click Move to Trash.

6. Click on the Trash icon in your Dock.

7. Click Empty.

How to delete apps from your Dock

You can also get rid of apps with a simple drag-and-drop.

1. Find the app you want to remove on your Dock, or open the Application folder on your Dock and find it there.

2. Click and hold the app icon.

3. Drag the app icon to the Trash icon in your Dock and release.

4. Click on the Trash icon.

5. Click Empty.

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Need to delete an app but keep getting a popup that you can't because it's still open? We've got a step-by-step guide for that, too.

Questions?

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