Re: Deleting home folders...

"Rod Janson" <rodney@xxxxxxxxxx> skrev i melding
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Hi again,

Question too stupid or too difficult / not possible...?

Sorry if this is the wrong group...

Rod


> Hi,
>
> We have a few home folders we need to delete. Unfortunately the user
> accounts who owned these home folders are deleted. I tried to right-click
> the folder in Explorer and transfer the folder ownership to administrator.
> Then I selected the folder and clicked delete. I got no error message but
> the folder did not get deleted.
>
> Any clue how I can delete the home folders for belonging to deleted user
> accounts?
>
> Question two: Does it exist tools to mass-delete home folders based on a
> list of folder names?
>
> Thanks for hints on this
>
> regards
>
> Rod
>
>


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