Liam, I've not got time to respond in depth right now, but the one thing I'd say immediately is that you should get stuck into Spaces :)
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/spaces.html Cheers, Chris On 20 Sep 2008, at 19:35, Liam Kelly wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
