Delete a user account

I am trying to delete a user account but the "-" button is not clickable - help!

kmamula,
are you logged in as your administrative user? Is the padlock in the lower-left corner unlocked?

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Press and hold the power button for a few seconds until the power shuts off, then release, wait a few more seconds, and press it again briefly to restart.

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When i go to about this mac and look at my storage it says that i have 33GB of music. i recently deleted 2 user accounts but can't find any of these files. Where do i go to delete these files?

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What are you asking? Where music is stored or where the user accounts were stored?
Music should be in the music folder - perhaps inside of an iTunes folder.
User accounts should be on the home directory.

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I'm having a pain of a time trying to remove the old user accounts on this iBook I was given. The accounts page in the system settings is unlocked, I click on an accountm, the click on Delete User, it works for a while, and then when it is finished 'deleting' the user account is still there, nothing has been deleted. I've try a dozen times now. I'm stumped. Can't find anything on the internet that will help.
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So far, I've not had this kind of issue; but did find a few directions to check to see how to go about removing user accounts... or renaming them, etc. One of the recent discussions I've read through (three pages) had some ideas that could work.
Outside of booting the OS X computer into a super-user account where you can delete Admin users, etc and probably if not familiar with unix, do some incredible damages too; I'd try other exercises first as I am timid. What version of OS X is running in your vintage computer?
In the process of 'Change Name on Home Folder' some revealing ideas came across; some may transfer...
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3366855?tstart=0
And some ideas that could be used to another end, may be found here...
http://www.cultofmac.com/126621/how-to-move-or-rename-your-mac-home-folder-macrx /
How to delete user accounts...
https://discussions.apple.com/message/3836878#3836878
However, there are no warrantees expressed or implied. Always a fine idea to read and sort information since some of the ideas available only allow you do perform the practice once correctly. Or wish you had.
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I decided to let it run overnight. Checked it this morning and it was complete. Go figure...
Not sure what the process of deleting a user account involves, but it sure took a long time, something more than 7 hours. I definitely don't want to have to do that again!
Thanks for the response, I was going to go that route if it wasn't complete this morning.

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What I need to know if should I delete all the files from the user account before
deleting the account
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Do you really need to archive the user folder?
linc, that would be desirable but not absolutely essential. And, thank you for your swift response!

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My computer is the same I've had for a year now. I didn't have a problem until I closed the two user accounts and consolidated into an admin account.
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Yeah but OSX is strange, you need lots if free space to delete files, you need more free space for more memory, you need more free space even for a larger hard drive!
That should be enough though.
Go to the Users folder and do a Get info on her folder, what size is it?
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