Deleting a User Account and All the Files

Hello , I would like to delete my daughters user account and everything in it to Free Up much needed hard drive space that it is taking up because the user now has their own Macbook Pro.
I am the administrator and I am tringy to delete her account using system preferences , but I just get both the spinning progress circle and the dreaded spinning beach ball at the same time which just keeps spinning ... on and on and on .. after I go through the prompts asking me if I really want to delete the account.
Any help ?

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?
Maybe try deleting her Documents folder ther instead of in her account, does that work?

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