If you manually delete files from the data/user folder, your server will not
implode.
Every once in a rare while, I've had to do this for one reason or another.
Here's the impact of deleting a user file, as far as I can determine--
* Assuming a majority of those users have done nothing but
Thank you for that, Thomas. It turned out to be the proxy system that was
causing the problem.
Having now got that page to work, I can see a lot of legacy/dead accounts.
Rather than deactivating accounts that are definitely gone - particularly
since that action causes the browser to go back to the