Can't delete a user in High Sierra
09/01/18 Filed in: MacOS
Scotty,
I migrated an old user after I accidentally created a new user with the same name when I bought a new mac. Now I can't delete the other user. It's greyed out in the Users & Groups.
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I've seen this issue now several times. A couple of ways to solve this. Wipe the drive and start the migration over again or swap the GeneratedUID. This is not something for you to do if you are not 100% confident in your abilities. Make a backup and proceed with extreme caution:
Original credit goes to Ambrose Little over at medium.com
I migrated an old user after I accidentally created a new user with the same name when I bought a new mac. Now I can't delete the other user. It's greyed out in the Users & Groups.
___________
I've seen this issue now several times. A couple of ways to solve this. Wipe the drive and start the migration over again or swap the GeneratedUID. This is not something for you to do if you are not 100% confident in your abilities. Make a backup and proceed with extreme caution:
- Go to Directory Utility
- Enable Root
- In Directory Editor, search for the user to be deleted.
- Copy the UID to a textedit doc then change the UID by one number
- Save
- Search for the currently logged in user (the user to be kept)
- copy the UID for this user into the text doc just to be safe.
- now replace it with the first UID number.
- Open terminal and run `diskutil apfs updatePreboot disk1a1`
- Restart and log in as the remaining user. Pray.
Original credit goes to Ambrose Little over at medium.com
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