Restore deleted user account

How do I restore a deleted admin user account?

Did you save the data? Recreate it, using the same username and password. If you saved the date, mount the disk image and put the saved things in the new folders.

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Restore deleted user account & preferences?

I had two administrative accounts. One under Lacie and one under me. All of my preferences had been set under Lacie, since I was logging into that one more frequently. But, I decided to change the name of the account & to delete the other admin account. When I did that I also changed the "home" name. Now, all of my previous settings are gone. Is there any way that I can restore them? Also, I have servers that I used to be able to connect to, and now I'm not able to.
Help?

Search these forums for *lost admin* which brings up many threads including this one from Michael Conniff:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=121786&tstart=0

New Macbook Air setup problem with deleting user account

I recently changed from a MBP to a MBA and upon completing my migration data from old mac to new one I had an extra user account. So I have my admin account and a guest account and a third account that I don't want. Upon trying to delete this account it show "deleting user account and home folder" but it has been doing this for more than an hour therefore it will not let me exit system preferences. Any help on this?

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "need configuration data ... " However, if both computers are on your network then you should be able to synchronize various files or folders using backup software. However, to start you will need to enable File Sharing on one of the computers.
For help with this select Mac Help from the Finder's Help menu. Search for "file sharing." You should find several links on how to configure it on your computer. Also see Mac 101- File sharing and Tutorial- File sharing in OS X - MacFixIt.
Once file sharing is set up you can then try a backup utility to do the synching. Most backup utilities not only do backups but can also be configured to synchronize files and/or folders. Here are some possibilities:
Backup Software Recommendations
1. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
2. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
3. Deja Vu (Shareware)
4. Carbon Copy Cloner (Donationware)
5. Data Backup (Commercial)
6. SilverKeeper 2.0 (Freeware)
7. Tri-Backup (Commercial)
8. SyncTwoFolders (Freeware)
9, Data Lore (Commercial - exclusively for network file transfers over Bonjour.)
Others may be found at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files.
Hope this helps get you started.

Restore a user account backed up by time machine to a replacement macbook?

I've searched the forum without finding an answer to this situation, so here's my question:
I setup Time Machine to only backup a teacher's user account on her MacBook because the capacity of the external drive used for her backup was not very large. I excluded all files on the drive, with the exception of her user's home directory. *Her laptop was stolen.*
I just received a replacement laptop, which is the same model, but it is running 10.6.2. The stolen MacBook was running 10.5.8. During initial setup, I attached the drive and attempted to "Restore from TIme Machine backup," but it would not recognize the time machine backup on the attached drive. I also tried renaming the computer to match the name of the stolen MacBook, and tried restoring using the Migration Assistant, which was also unsuccessful.
*Is there anyway that I will be able to restore her user account from the Time Machine backup to her new MacBook?* It doesn't matter if reinstalling 10.5 is the answer, or if I need some 3rd-party software. Is there detailed Time Machine documentation that covers this type of scenario? If there is, I haven't been able to find it.
I also considered allowing the new MacBook to consider the external drive that has the stolen MacBook's backup as its own Time Machine backup (as automatically prompted when plugging the drive into the new MacBook), but I didn't want to futz around and mess things up.
Thank you in advance for helpful replies!

Nova wrote:
I've searched the forum without finding an answer to this situation, so here's my question:
I setup Time Machine to only backup a teacher's user account on her MacBook because the capacity of the external drive used for her backup was not very large. I excluded all files on the drive, with the exception of her user's home directory. *Her laptop was stolen.*
I just received a replacement laptop, which is the same model, but it is running 10.6.2. The stolen MacBook was running 10.5.8. During initial setup, I attached the drive and attempted to "Restore from TIme Machine backup," but it would not recognize the time machine backup on the attached drive. I also tried renaming the computer to match the name of the stolen MacBook, and tried restoring using the Migration Assistant, which was also unsuccessful.
this is because you excluded all the other things from backups. this precludes any kind of automated migration.
*Is there anyway that I will be able to restore her user account from the Time Machine backup to her new MacBook?*
yes, it's possible but you'll have to do it manually. First, make sure that there is no account by the same name already exists on the new mac. this is important.
next, control-click on TM in the dock and select "browse other TM disks". this will let you browse the old TM backups. in the backups select the old home directory in /Users. click on the "gears" action button in the toolbar and select "restore to". choose to restore to the folder /users on your main hard drive. once the restore is complete go to system preferences->accounts and create an account with the same short user name as the name of the home directory you just restored. it will say that a home directory by that name already exists and ask if you want to use it. say "yes".

How to permanently/manually delete User Account on MAC OS X 10.6.8

Hi There,
Can you please assist with providing instructions on how to manually delete USER accounts on MAC OS X 10.6.8. Everyone but one user (who's account was deleted) can not log into the damain device. As a test I tried to add a new user accout with the same name as before and even though nothing existing in the USERS folder; it states that a duplicate name exists.
How do I delete that duplicate? Where could that be located?
Please let me know,
Sonia

Solution!
Command to locate the hidden User Profile:
dscl . list /users
Command to delete the now found hidden User Profile:
sudo dscl . delete /users/<userID>
Thanks,
SoniaCP

Can't delete user account with open shopping cart

Hi all,
Is it okay to delete user account with open shopping cart? I can't delete user by users_gen, it says existing partner document. I then applied notes 1148837,report PARTNER_SET_DELETE. And this report doesn't really work. I ran it and it found zero occurrnences. Is anybody using this report?
So is it the only way to delete user from SRM is by su01 and leave some informations on Busines partner (bp)
Thanks,
Kev

Hi. You can easily lock the user and change the validity dates using SU01.
Then, I would write a program that looks through all locked users and checks their valdity dates. Table USR02 holds all this data.
Then, if the user is locked and the validity end date was 3 or 6 or whatever months ago (make this a selection parameter probably), then you know you want to delete this user.
So, go into table HRP1001 where SCLAS = US and SOBID = user name and OTYPE = CP and get field OBJID. This is the central person (CP) number.
Then, go into table HRP1001 again, this time where SCLAS = BP and OTYPE = CP and OBJID = the CP number and get field SOBID. This is the business partner (BP) number.
Now, run function BAPI_USER_DELETE to delete the SU01 user fully, then function HR_CENTRALPERSON_DELETE to delete the central person, then function BUP_BUPA_DELETE to delete the business partner.
And that should delete everything.
Regards,
Dave.

Deleting user accounts

Is there an automated way to delete user accounts on a regular basis through Apple Remote Desktop

Well you can issue a send unix command or set ARD to regulary send a unix command. The complecity of that unix command is really up to what you can find, hire, or can write yourself.
If your accounts are coming from an Open Directory or Active Directory, you can configure the account to be 'mobile accounts.' At witch point you can set mobile accounts to expire after x time of inactivty.
But why do you want to delete accounts? what about the risk of deleting files a user wants / needs.

How to find who deleted user account

Hi there,
I need help from Security Specialists to find out who deleted user account in past in a R/3 46C system.
I have already tried below methods and checked previous posts in this forum but no use -
1. SUIM
2. SM20
3. SM21
4. Report RSTBHIST
5. ST03
6. STAT
7. SECR
8. SM19
Thanks in advance.

Thanks Ben,
I tried and got output as below -
Clien     User     Modificati   Modifica   Changed by    PROFS
900          304902       03.02.2007   15:11:23   107901            D
900          304902       15.05.2007   13:39:42    AMOL            C ZRFCCPIC__
900          304902         08.06.2007   12:28:56   AMOL            M FSTSTKCOUN ZRFCCPIC__
Which means user was last deleted on 03/02 by 107901 and then I recreated it on 15/05 and maintained on 08/06.
But again today I found this user missing and thats the reason I 'm desparately looking for delete log.
I didnt find latest deletion log anywhere.

Apple Configurator - 1.2 (Delete User Account while Checked Out)

Hi Community,
I have a supervised iPad that was checked out to a particular user. The user account in apple configurator was deleted while checked out. The iPad is now unavailable to check out because it is permanently checked out to the deleted user account.
I reset and deleted all information on the iPad but since it is supervised it comes right back to the point I checked it out (which I really like). But in this situation how to I get that user off...because I can't check it back in and currently can't use it for anyone else.
Thanks!

I attempted to, but if a device is checked out to a user the unsupervise option isn't available. This is only because I believe the device was checked out and the user it was checked out to was deleted. Normally if there wasn't a user checked out to the device unsupervise would be available.

Restore Deleted User

We need to restore the eDirectory account as well restore the users GW account and all of their email messages. We found this doc to restore the user account which sounds easy enough.
Novell Documentation
It is restoring all of the users email that looks like it is going to require restoring all the post office files to another location (restore area).
So, my questions are:
1. Do we really need to restore the entire post office?
2. Are there just certain db files we can restore without restoring the entire over 100GB of data from tape?
Thanks

* bpinet,
you could drop some files, like all the unneeded user databases, and maybe even the message databases you don't need, but I assume the majority of space is being used in offiles (attachments). I found it's not worth the few megabytes, I just restore everything.
Uwe
Novell Knowledge Partner (NKP)
Please don't send me support related e-mail unless I ask you to do so.

How can I delete user account picture in Windows 8?

I have set my account picture, but now want to delete the pic and back to the default.
How can I do it?

Hello,
The userpic, the image tiles used for your account picture, is located, in different resolutions, in the following folder: C:\Users\Public\AccountPictures\%UserAccountSecurityIdentifier%
where %UserAccountSecurityIdentifier% is a placeholder for the Security IDentifier (SID) assigned by the operating system or domain controller to your user account.
Here is how it looks like:
NOTE: If your are using multiple account for login to your computer, like local Security Account Manager (SAM) account (standard account created and stored on your local PC in NTFS), your Microsoft Account (the one using internet account name provided
by Microsoft such as [email protected],
[email protected]), or an Active Directory account, please open root C:\Users\Public\AccountPictures\ folder and browse to the folder with the name of the SID assigned to your user account for which you want to change the user picture.
To find out what SID refers to what user account name used on your PC, proceed with the following:
Start the elevated command prompt by pressing WindowsKey+Q and typing
cmd, then hitting Enter.
At the command prompt type: wmic useraccount get name,sid and press
Enter.
This will return a table with all user accounts registered on this computer (that is those who had once logged onto this PC) and their corresponding SIDs.
Now lookup this registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AccountPicture\Users
And locate the subkey (named correspondingly to the desired SID), then remove REG_SZ values that contain paths to the userpic images to remove traces of userpics.
WARNING: Please create new system restore point before making this registry change!
Hope this helps.
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Restoring Deleted User Calendars 10.6.8

We manage several public event calendars in OS X Server 10.6.8 via a single user called "Calendars" that publishes all its public calendars to the server. To facilitate ease of management in users' iCal, I also created a second user - called "Almanac", to whom I have delegated "read only" access to these calendars via iCal's delegation tab in the "Calendars" account. Thus, most users view the calendars by authenticating iCal using the "Almanac" account, while two or three privledged calendar managers view and edit that same data by authenticaing using the "Calendars" account.
This worked flawlessly for years, until recently when for no apparent reason, the "Calendars" account was getting automatically disabled on the Server, causing authentication errors in users' ical and of course presenting event updates. At first I thought the fault lay in my OD policies, which are set to delete accounts after 90 days of inactivity. However, this particular account has been excepted from this policy in Workgroup Manager via the Avanced Tab/Options.
In the past, I've cleared up similar niggling problems by simply deleting and recreating the problematic user account, making sure to use the same short name and then running chown -r on the appropriate user home folder. I did that with this account, and indeed it is no longer being disabled. However, all of the precious iCal calendar events have disappeared. I can see the calendars themselves when I log into the Calendars user account and start up iCal, but there are no events present. When I try to access the calendars on the server via a privledged or unprivledged user in iCal, I get the message:
"The calendar http://<my.server.FQDN>:8008/principals/__uids__/00C48532-BA77-478C-A4D3-17A848DD9F6D/ was not found on the server. Make sure the URL is correct."
Looking at the Calendar user home folder, it looks like the data is all still there in ~/Library/Calendars. On the server, I also see what appears to be the Calendar Server documents that match the above UID in /Library/CalendarServer/Documents/Calendars/_uids_/... Of course, I also have multiple backup copies of all of these directories via TimeMachine, SuperDuper! and PresSTORE.
I've already tried rm all the user calendar cache files and resyncing, also tried trashing all the user iCal preferences. Also tried a full restore of the users home folder via TimeMachine and running chown -r again.
Thoughts anyone? Thanks.

Sorry - I meant chown -R of course.

Restoring deleted Mail account

Hi
I have inadvertently deleted a POP 3 mail account on my Mac. I have located the folders for this including inbox.mbox but how do I restore this?
Many thanks
Ken

I don’t know what you did, but if the account folder is still there, then either you didn’t delete the account, or you’ve set it up again.
Anyway, because of the differences between Mail 1.x and Mail 2.x, if you’re using Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther), as your profile indicates, further discussing your problem here might confuse other users with similar problems running Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), so please start a new topic in the Mail & Address Book - Mac OS X 10.3 & earlier forum. I or someone else will be able to better help you there.
At any rate, I encourage you to choose a more appropriate alias to post here. In order to name you at the beginning of my reply, I would have had to start it saying “What the...”, which would have been clearly inappropriate and confusing for other users. Actually, I would have ignored your post altogether just because of that if it wasn’t because your post was entirely correct (except for the fact that it was posted in the wrong forum).

Deleted user Account

My daughter was deleting unwanted programs on her mac book and mistakenly deleted one of her user accounts. Now its gone files photos and everything. Is there anyway to restore her account?
Please Help!

General File Recovery
If you stop using the drive it's possible to recover deleted files that have not been overwritten by using recovery software such as Data Rescue II, File Salvage or TechTool Pro. Each of the preceding come on bootable CDs to enable usage without risk of writing more data to the hard drive. Two free alternatives are Disk Drill and TestDisk. Look for them and demos at MacUpdate or CNET Downloads.
The longer the hard drive remains in use and data are written to it, the greater the risk your deleted files will be overwritten.
Also visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on Data Recovery.
If the computer has remained in use then most likely files have been overwritten and are not recoverable. If basic recovery software cannot recover the files, then you would need to send the drive to a file recovery service such as Drive Savers. Such services are very expensive.

Not Enough Hard Drive Space on my Mac Mini to Save Deleted User Account Folder: What to do?

I am no longer able to access my original user account on my mac mini because the account is corrupted and won't load. Thanks to the helpful advice I found on the internet, I was able to create a new user account and resume using my mac, but all of my old files are trapped in the old user account.
The plan was to delete the old user account, create a disk image of the old account folders, and then migrate those folders to the new user account. Unfortunately, I don't have enough disc space left on my Mac to do that. I have just under 11gb left after deleting absolutely everything I could, and I need 81gb for the old user files. The back up plan was to select the "don't change the home folder" option, but when I went to delete the account, there was no such option. The message simply read:
"The user's home folder will not be saved. To do so, you need 81.1gb of free disk space. Try emptying the trash or deleting other files on your disk, then deleting the user account. If you do not want to save the user's home folder, click delete immediately."
My only two choices were CANCEL or DELETE IMMEDIATELY. There was no "don't change the home folder" option.
So I am not sure how to proceed. Here are some questions:
1) is there a way to save the disk image directly to an external drive instead of the user's folder on the mac hard drive?
2) If I use the "delete immediately" option, will the files go into a "deleted users" folder where they can be recovered or will they just be erased from the computer and unretrievable?
3) Is there a way to use terminal to change access permission on the original user account files so that I can copy them onto an external drive or integrate them with the new user account without having to first delete the original user account?
4) In the absence of deleting the user account, will using either:
sudo chown -R `id -un` /Users/oldusername
and/or
sudo chmod -R u+rw /Users/oldusername
in Terminal allow the new user account permission to access the original user files and merge them seamlessly into my new user account? Or must I delete the original account first?
5) Is there something else I haven't thought of that would work, would be more efficient, or more effective? This wouldn't be the first time I have overthought a solution...
When considering any solutions, please keep in mind that I cannot launch the original user account as that starts the whole endless loading loop. So, while I have the password for the original user account, any solution would appear to require that I work from the new user account only, without launching the old account. Also I am a complete newbie at this. I've used Macs exclusively for 17 years but this is the first time I've had to do anything like this. Up to now, everything has always "just worked". So please be as detailed with any instructions as possible!
Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Mac Mini 2ghz 1g ram running OS 10.4.11

I think ComputerFixer is correct, you should be able to drag and drop it to another drive, no worries. However, if not, you could create an disk image of it using DiskUtility and create it on a new drive. But again, I don't think that is necessary. If you have administrator rights with your new account, can you simply go into the old user account folder and drag and drop the files you want to save? I have done that as well as copy the older user account to another drive (in my case, another computer on the network) and salgage my files from there. Is that an option for you?

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