Swapping and deleting an Admin User

Hi
I have an old MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard. There are two user accounts on the machine, mine and my wifes. My account is currently the Admin user account. I want to delete my account off the mac and make my wifes user account the Admin account. The reason being I don't use the Mac anymore, I have a new one and I'm trying to free up space on the HD and give it a spring clean before upgrading it to Lion.
What's the best approach to swapping the Admin User and deleting the original Admin User? Am I going to run into any Permission or Password issues? Will Disk Utils Repair Permission work it's magic? Would it be better to do this before I upgrade to Lion or are their no advantages/dis-advantages?
Any other advice would be welcome.
Ta
David

Just make your wife's account have admin status.
System Preferences --> Accounts --> select account --> unlock with your admin password --> check the check box that says Allow user to administer this computer.
Close preferences, log out and log in to the account you just made admin to verify it does have admin status. It should say in in the Accounts preferences. And you could test it by deleting the original admin account.
I specified that sequence just so you could verify you set account as admin before you cut-the-cord and delete your original account.
Note, you made no other changes to the second account other than allow it to be an admin. So files associated with that account are unaffected with respect to permissions, owner, and group.
Technically it doesn't matter whether you do it before or after upgrade. But if it were me I would back up my current system before tampering with it and certainly before any major OS upgrade. Always back up before any major upgrade.
Finally, by the way, repair permissions only repairs apple stuff, not user installed stuff, so it wouldn't affect the account's file and folder permissions anyhow.
About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature

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I can understand your newbie frustration. However, that Help article I pointed you to contained all your answers. Explicitly;
Deleting a user account
When you delete a user account, you can choose to save the user's files or delete them.
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<snip>
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FMIS is running and I can connect via Flash Media Encoder.
Web displays and admin console :1111 gives xml output, however
When using the user & password in my xml files to login (testing with ping), I get the "Admin user requires valid username and password" error.
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# fms.ini contains substitution variables for Flash Media Server          #
# configuration files. Lines beginning with '#' are considered comments. #
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# the first '=' is considered the name of the substitution variable, and #
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<result>
<level>error</level>
     <code>NetConnection.Connect.Rejected</code>
     <description>Admin user requires valid username and password.</description>
     <timestamp>Thu 17 May 2012 11:33:43 AM EDT</timestamp>
</result>
Connections do not work from both localhost and external connections and the fms_adminConsole.htm (.swf) fails as well.
Any assistance is appreciated!

Hi,
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Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Apurva

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Thanks,
Apurva

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"Will Young" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Post back and let me know.
Good luck
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