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Sometimes when launching a site you need to import users from another site. User Import module makes that job quite simple. A year goes by and request comes in to delete all imported users who have never logged in. You have the following options:
- User Prune
- pros - deletion based on criteria
- cons - no batch API
- Custom module with hook_cron implementation
- pros - very customizable, allows calling user_delete
- cons - depends on cron running frequency and capacity
If neither of these options fit and there is no button clicking money around to submit a form hundreds of times to delete users manually one might be tempted to bypass Drupal and PHP completely by executing a query in the db.
Note - I do not recommend this option.
