Mistakenly Set up New Users: How to Delete?

Seems the guy who set up new MacBook set up 3 or 4 new Users, all called " ".
Very confusing.
But I can't make them go away. Help please!
Ultimately I only want one User, and that's me (i.e. the administrator)
Thanks in advance
Steve

This is unusual. When you get home just check to see if there really are more users than you expect, or if it is a problem with Finder.
You may not be familiar with Terminal but my request is easy and safe.
In the Applications folder, then the Utilities folder, find and open the Terminal. There will be a short message when you first open it.
then type, or copy and paste into it
ls -al /Users
and press return. If you expect to have only one account you should see:
drwxrwxr-t 6 root admin 204 18 Mar 23:28 .
drwxrwxr-t 37 root admin 1258 1 Jul 22:09 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 me admin 6148 22 Jun 20:08 .DS_Store
drwxrwxrwt 8 root wheel 272 23 Apr 23:37 Shared
drwxr-xr-x 17 me me 578 16 Jun 23:25 me
The last entry me being your account name. You can close Terminal now.
If that is the case these other accounts seem to be phantoms.
Please post back what you find.
So I conclude that each of my rogue user accounts has got its own set of these folders.
Even if you have other accounts their Pictures Music, etc would appear in their own accounts and should not be grouped together in any one account as you have described. That is why I say this is unusual.
I suggest you run Repair Permissions in the application Disk Utility, which is found in Applications/Utilities. Select the drive, select First Aid click on Repair Permissions.
regards roam

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