How to delete users and folders

Introduction

This section describes

  • how to delete users and folders

  • how to delete special folders:

    home folders with assigned users

    folders with shared access.

How to delete a user

The table below describes how to delete a user:

Step

Action

1

Choose Administration:User Setup in the UNICORN Manager.

Result: The User Setup dialog box is displayed.

2

  • Select the user from the Users list and click the Delete button.

  • Click OK to confirm.

Note: You can delete all users except the last user with User setup/Levels access. This ensures that at least one user has the right to perform administration functions.

3

Click the Close button.

Note: When you delete a user, the user's home folder or method and result files are not deleted.
How to delete a folder

Caution! A deleted file/folder cannot be recovered.

The table below describes how to delete a folder.

Step

Action

1

Choose Administration:User Setup in the UNICORN Manager.

Result: The User Setup dialog box is displayed.

2

Select the user from the Users list and click the Edit button.

Result: The User properties dialog box is displayed.

3

Select Access:Folders in the left field of the User properties dialog box.

Select the user's folder in the Folders field, if it is not automatically selected.

4

Click the Delete button and then the Yes button to confirm.

Note: All methods, result files and folders within a selected folder will be deleted when the selected folder is deleted.

5

Click OK to close the dialog box and then the Close button.

How to delete special folders

The folders described below must be deleted in a different way than described above.

A home folder to which a user is assigned

To delete a home folder to which a user is assigned

  • delete the user, then the home folder. See instructions above.

- or -

  • change the home folder assignment for the user: Select the User item in the User Properties dialog box and assign a different home folder.

A folder to which several users share access.

To delete a folder to which several users share access

  • first remove the access rights from each user (deselect the folder for each user under Access:Folders in the User properties dialog box), then delete the folder as described above.

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