iMac Mavericks - delete the Admin user & increase disk space

My iMac Specs:

21.5 inch, mid-2014

OS X Version 10.9.5

Processor 1.4 GHz Intel Core i5

Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Graphics  Intel HD Graphics 5000 1536 MB

Serial number  C0 * Y0T

Software  OS X 10.9.5 (13F1808)

Mac HD 160,11 GB free on 499.25

Hello

My wife gave me his iMac and she is listed as a user Admin I created my own user. I want to create more disk space by removing his admin account.


Apple gives these instructions:

OS X Mavericks: remove a user

If you are an administrator, you can remove users that you would no longer have access to your Mac.

When you delete a user, you can save the home folder of the user, which contains the files and the settings of the user, or delete the folder.

Open the preferences users and groups, and then click the lock icon to unlock it. If required, type your password, and then click on unlock.

Select the user you want to remove, and then click Remove under the list of users.

Do one of the following:

To save the home folder of the user as a disc image, select "Save the home folder in a disk image." The disk image is saved in/Users/deleted users.

In order to leave such base file, select "do not change the folder." The folder remains in / Users /.

To delete the folder of your computer, select "Remove the folder." If you want to keep the programs that read the raw data to recover all files, select "delete the folder safely."

Click on the user to remove.

If you do not remove a personal folder user, you can restore the user and the content of the home folder.


My questions, that they do not explain the instructions.

1. can I delete his account if I'm not the Admin? I can access the admin account.

2. can I designate me as the new admin, and then delete his account?

3. I have, indeed, will create more disk space by removing account here?

4. If I register his record as a disk image, which will open disk space without delete me the entire account?


A technician Apple told me that I can not increase the memory of 8 GB to 16 GB on my vision.

5. can't increase memory - is this true?

My computer works as fast as I want and I'm trying to reduce the load on the system.

6. I go about it the right way or is there something more I can do?

Thank you

TonyDi31

< personal information under the direction of the host >

Hi Tony, I asked your serial number erased. You never want to post in a public forum.

To answer your question, no, you can not delete the account if you are not admin. You try to delete the account to become the sole Director of the computer? If so, everything will always be linked to his Apple ID and will require a password to authenticate anything. If this is the case, you must wipe the drive and reinstall the OS using internet recovery.

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