Cheers Chris I use Spaces all the time but it has it's limitations and frankly I like keeping stuff separate really - I have over 4000 bookmarks, but when I'm just logged into my personal accounts I don't need to access all my work related ones and visa versa - thus the need to divide things up - just an example not the only reason! It's just giving me grief now and especially with things like a joint shared iTunes library that can be accessed by all profiles rather than having 6 identical iTunes Folders spread across all the profiles... stuff like this
On Sep 20, 7:38 pm, Chris Billett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
