Hi guys I was just wandering if I could get some advice
I'm wanting to set my iMac up with the perfect OS system set up on it - What I mean by this is how one of you guys, especially people like Sam or Jason, would set up a new machine I have an iMac 2 Ghz Intel Duo, with 1.5 GB SDRAM, running OXS 10.5.5 I have 3 profiles set up for business stuff - one for online craft selling, one for graphic design/presentation work and one for my photography/film work. I also have a person profile for my wife and one for myself, plus a family one and a guest one.... The idea is that stuff is kept in it's rightful place ie. emails, addresses, iCals, Bookmarks and documents. Also so that I concentrate on one thing at a time and only run the appropriate applications through the right login - sounds like a Virgo heaven, which it is (ALL profiles are set up with full admin settings in the Users System Preferences, except Guest obviously) Now to start off all I had was my own personal Account and then my wife's. So in creating these other profiles, I have pretty much duplicated stuff like Mail, AddressBook, iCal folders etc and then placed them in their prospective places in the new profile as they have been created, and then deleted the info I didn't require for said profile. A long a laborious way of doing it frankly Now so far so good... expect when it comes to how I have docuements set up - I use the iMac more like a workstation, and any documents ie Word, Photoshop, Aperture, Illustrator etc documents are saved to an external drive, which is included in my Time Machine backups to another drive.... So therefore no docuemnts are left on the iMac other than stuff being worked on and the external drive acts more like a storage/archive drive and both are backed up using Time Machine. Again so far so good - problems I am encountering are things like some third party applications are requiring re-registration on different profiles.... not a huge problem as I'm working round this at the moment, but the biggest problem is access to folders on the iMac and on the external archive drive - I have set up all the folders in each profile, apart form Libraries (so Docuemnts, Music, Movies, Photos etc), and all the folders on the archive drive, to be Read & Write access to all users through info and also made them Shareable through Sharing System Preference, but about 30% of them won't show access priveldges when accessed through some of the profiles.... So basically what am I doing wrong and is there a better way I should have done this? Are all profiles controllable through an Administrator Account (and I don't mean a standard account with Admin rights) - is one even necessary? Also in Users System Preference - what is the purpose of the Groups? I have created Groups called personal and work and placed the said profiles in each but what is their purpose and how doe they work? Any help with this rather long winded info request would be muchly appreciated...cheers Liam --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
