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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1508251" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>Somehow I doubt this was done within the Finder. It takes multiple steps and then I believe will only work if there is another administrator account. Here is the way it works in 10.8.2 and I think it has been this way for quite a while.</p><p></p><p>1. Open System Preferences and select Users and Groups (Accounts). You may be asked for an admin password.</p><p>2. Select the account to be deleted and click the - sign.</p><p>3. A dialog sheet appears with three choices: save the folder contents to disc image, essentially do nothing, or delete.</p><p></p><p>As you can see there are safeguards in place so that this does not occur accidentally in Finder. If this was done from within Finder <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2258?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US" target="_blank">this article</a> might help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1508251, member: 131855"] Somehow I doubt this was done within the Finder. It takes multiple steps and then I believe will only work if there is another administrator account. Here is the way it works in 10.8.2 and I think it has been this way for quite a while. 1. Open System Preferences and select Users and Groups (Accounts). You may be asked for an admin password. 2. Select the account to be deleted and click the - sign. 3. A dialog sheet appears with three choices: save the folder contents to disc image, essentially do nothing, or delete. As you can see there are safeguards in place so that this does not occur accidentally in Finder. If this was done from within Finder [URL="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2258?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US"]this article[/URL] might help. [/QUOTE]
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