Cannot remove the old user account (admin)

I'm on a MacBook Pro 15 "the retina with OS X Yosemite 10.10.5.

I have two admin accounts, an 'old' I do not use and a more current that I use.

I want to delete the 'old' admin account, but I get an error message: "cannot delete user... account error backup in the home folder for this user."

Here are the steps I followed:

1. System Preferences-> users and groups

2. click on unlock icon; authentication with username and password

3. click on the 'old' user account and click on the button "-" to remove it.

4. Select the option "save the home folder in a disk image", then click on remove the user

5. for the moment, he says 'delete account '.

6 then I get the error message.

I know that I could choose the second option (in step 4), but I really want to move the old files of the user users users/Deleted.

Any advice or ideas would be greatly appreciated

The first thing that comes to mind is the following: is there enough room for the disc to be created image and put in files? The files are not moved from the reader to the disk image, they are copied. Then for a time in the account to be deleted files will be on the computer two times. The second thing that comes to mind is that there is a directory of the hard drive problem. If you do not have enough space and is my first problem, start the recovery partition and use the directory of disk to repair the drive. And the third thing that might be the cause of the problem is a bad file that cannot be copied to the disk image. It will be difficult to understand because basically, you will need to open each file to find the one that is perhaps incorrect.

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