Hi Ian, Did you create an Administrator User Account & Password for your wife?
To transfer files between two accounts on your Mac OS X computer, first move your wife's files from your account into the 'Shared folder' Then, log into your wife's account to retrieve the files from the Shared folder. Move all her files into the correct places ... Documents into Documents, movies into Movies, photos into Pictures etc. To make changing User Accounts quicker enable 'Fast User Switching' To quickly switch between accounts: 1. Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, and click Accounts. If some settings are dimmed, click the lock icon and type an administrator name and password. 2. Click Login Options. 3. Select “Enable fast user switching.” I'm knocking off for the day now, should be back again tomorrow if you require anymore help. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 24/09/2011, at 10:15 PM, Ian Reid <ianre...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > > On 24 Sep 2011, at 9:18 PM, Ian Reid wrote: > > > On 24 Sep 2011, at 5:08 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > Hi Ian, > On 24/09/2011, at 3:29 PM, Ian Reid wrote: > >> Good afternoon All >> >> My wife recently recently decided to replace her paper diary and >> appointments book with one of the coloured iCal calendars on our Mac but >> finds all my other, coloured calendars a distraction. She doesn't want to >> have to untick all the others but wants her own alone all the time. > > iCal is a single user application. You can’t have two separate iCal > Applications in the same User Account. > You can do as you have been doing, create a Calendar for your Wife within > your Calendar App, but she does not want this. > >> I cannot see how she can have this with iCal without going to the trouble of >> introducing separate accounts and passwords for us. > > If your wife wants her own iCal (& she should have one ;-), She needs to have > her own "User Account”. >> >> I am loath to do this and consequently transfer vast quantities of her files >> to a new account after so many years. > > I would create another “User Account” for your wife, I’ve never seen success > with two people using the same 'User Account’. > >> So, can someone please recommend another calendar app for the Mac from the >> many available. > > A Calendar your wife perhaps could use in the same account as yours. > Google Calendar (Web-based) > <http://www.google.com/intl/en/googlecalendar/about.html> > > Note: I don’t in any way recommend Google Calendar: > > I would recommend your Wife have her own User Account. > > Hi Ronni > > In looking properly at what is involved, it seems I have vastly > over-estimated the difficulty of transferring all Margaret's files to her own > account. Apart from what is on the desktop they are in Users>Ian > Reid>Margaret. If all I have to do is drag those from the Desktop into > >Margaret, open an account for her and drag >Margaret into it, then I am all > for it, apart from the advantage of a less cluttered Desktop. Thanks for > helping me see the light. > > Ian > > Hi Ronni > > I have opened up an account for Margaret but I can't drag and drop her > existing files into it. How do I transfer them? > > Ian > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
