Delete User - local files

What happens when you delete an LDAP user? We need to make sure the local files on the users workstation are removed also. Is there a way to do this? Or is it done when the user account is deleted.....

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My creative cloud files have all been deleted on my machine, all put in the trash (not by me!) I've recovered some but I want to download everything from the creative cloud server before I sync again. is there anyway to do this? or do I have to download every single file individually, which would take hours......
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Was on a call with support for an hour which was painful, with them taking control of my screen but having no idea what to do to fix it.
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Phil_6379 wrote:
After all backups for the first computer I wanted to delete off the first temporary partition are deleted, the folder for this Mac is not empty ; it still contains all the 15 dates folder of the individual backups.
It shouldn't; when you delete a backup, the date-stamped backup folder and all it's contents should be deleted.
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