Delete user's folder after user was deleted without saving home folder

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MacOS 15.4

A user was deleted without deleting the user's home folder

The user's home folder, and everything underneath, needs to be deleted as it is taking up much too much space

I do not have the rights to delete the folder and I cannot change the rights on the user's folder, or subfolders, to delete the folders.

I have tried the various 'sudo chown' and 'sudo rd -rf' commands. I get the "operation not permitted" error messages.

The most difficult folder appears to be "Mobile Documents" underneath the user's Library folder.

Posted on Apr 17, 2025 9:27 AM

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Answer 1

Try sudo rm -rf followed by dragging the old deleted user folder from a Finder window onto the Terminal window to complete the command path.

The command line would finally resemble:

sudo rm -rf /Users/deleteduserfolder

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