Created a new account ?

Strom1

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Feb 16, 2008

• #1

Created a standard account like was suggested, am i able to access my iphotos from the admin account?

 

Morod

macrumors 68000

• Feb 16, 2008

• #2

Good question. It seems when a new (standard) account is created, you are starting over from scratch and everything needs to be done over. Not only couldn't I access my iPhotos, I couldn't access my documents either. If I had looked around more, I'm sure there were other things I couldn't find. So for now I'm back to my admin account.
Morod

 

richard.mac

macrumors 603

• Feb 17, 2008

• #3

make your standard account administrator and then make your original administrator account standard.

 

Morod

macrumors 68000

• Feb 17, 2008

• #4

richthomas said:

make your standard account administrator and then make your original administrator account standard.

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Wow. Just wow. How much more simple could it be? Thank you. Now to go check out how to do this, which I'm sure is easy. 🙂
Morod

 

Morod

macrumors 68000

• Feb 17, 2008

• #5

Morod said:

Wow. Just wow. How much more simple could it be? Thank you. Now to go check out how to do this, which I'm sure is easy. 🙂
Morod

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Ummm, perhaps I spoke too soon. Can someone tell me how to go about changing the admin acct. to a standard acct. and vice versa? I just came back from Accounts in System Preferences and saw no blatant way to do this. If not tell me, could you point me in the right direction to where I might learn more about this? Thanks,
Morod, and yes, that's a D on the end, not an N.... 😕

 

xUKHCx

Administrator emeritus

• Feb 17, 2008

• #6

I believe you have to do it in this order

Create New Account
Give it Administrator privileges
Log out of your account
Log in to the new account
System Preferences - Accounts - Select original account - decheck Allow user to administer this computer

 

Strom1

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Feb 17, 2008

• #7

xUKHCx said:

I believe you have to do it in this order

Create New Account
Give it Administrator privileges
Log out of your account
Log in to the new account
System Preferences - Accounts - Select original account - decheck Allow user to administer this computer

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That works,thanks.

 

Morod

macrumors 68000

• Feb 18, 2008

• #8

Indeed, that works exactly as described. I am now out of my admin account and feel a lot better. Thank you.
Morod