The method: first the hardware, then the door. It was difficult and very messy. They weren’t made to be taken out (a lot of being *just* an inch short of making it easy) and we experienced a decent amount of plaster rain and dust. We also discovered that one door has some mold. We’re pretty sure we know what it’s from: when the bank foreclosed, they stripped the house of everything of value that they could get (hardware, fixtures, cabinets), sprayed everything in the dirty beige oil paint you see everywhere, shut off the a/c, and shut the doors. Without the a/c to pull the humidity from the air (let’s be straight: our house is never below 80 degrees… the a/c only takes the humidity out of the air) and wet paint still on the doors that were pushed back into the walls… some mold grew.
Another interesting tidbit: one of the trim strips we removed had some writing on the back: “Pes Lamb Tongue Sldg 56 X 91 #279
Here you can see the track, which is screwed into a beam. The door hangs from rollers (four rollers on each end of the door) inside of the track. In this picture, one side of the track is gone and you can clearly see the second. 
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