Deleting users help???

I am an administrator, but when I go in the System Preferances then to Users and Groups, The user I want to delete is not listed, yet when I log in to the account, it does exist. Also on the top right of my screen, I click my user name, and the user I want to delete is listed there as well. I cant delete the user from the account itself because it has the same problem. Please help me. Thanks.

Try to add an user with the same name as the user you want to delete. Open System Preferences > Users & Groups, press the + button and use the name of the user you want to remove. It will ask you if you want to use an existing user, so select that option and you should be able to delete this user

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No other domain trusts that this user could be in.
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know? This one user is the only one that was removed from the UserInfo table, but there are a few other users that are also deleted (from SharePoint, not manually from UserInfo) that are still showing as well. This one user included.
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Cannot delete users from the Central Management Console

I cannot delete users from the Central Management Console. I'm logged in to Enterprise as administrator but still get the following error:
There was an error while writing data back to the server: Sorry, you do not have the right to 'Delete objects' (id - 22) for 'koberg' (id - 725415). Please contact your system or permissions administrator if you require this right.
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By mistakenly I have deleted user from the user list . After some time i came to know that , that user is productive user.
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Chimsi

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