user accounts

Hello, I am new to Mac computers, although I have an iPad & iphone. I have an admin account for my MacBook 12" (which has OS Big Sur) and I would like to add an account for my husband. Ideally, I would like to add him as a standard user which I have read about on this forum, as well as on Apple...

Just noticed a bit of a weird thing going on… I have a Mac Pro in my studio which I use for my work, and it has two user accounts; my own user account which I work on (which is the admin account) plus a 'public' account for when other people hire my studio to work in (which happens...

Just weighing up whether I move my primary macOS from Mojave to Catalina, with a thought (question) on whether it’s possible to use my User account - which is located on a separate Fusion drive to my boot drive - with both Mojave and Catalina. Once I start using my (Mojave) User with Catalina...

Here is an easy way on macOS to access other user’s files — even when you are not an admin: Create an APFS snapshot of the entire disk (or find a pre-existing Time Machine local snapshot). Mount the snapshot with owners disabled. Go have a blast browsing files that are not yours. For use with...

I have a 2.8 GHz MacBook Pro (Mid 2014) with 1TB SSD and 16GB RAM. It's always been quite fast and it was basally the top-of-the-line model from that model run. But semi recently, it's be SLOOWWW. In particular, text input has been slow. Key combos take longer to activate then usual; there's...

Does anyone know how to remove/delete an user account, because I have been creating a new one on my new MacBook Pro when I migrated from the old one, but now I can't remove the new account again. I have been trying everything, but I can't find a solution. Please help!!

hi I'm wondering if there is a way to load user accounts when booting the apple tv4. I want to be able to choose among two accounts when I start the apple tv. The two accounts will have different sets of apps. perhaps by jail breaking? Thank you

I had a problem with migration assistant hanging with out completing when going from external drive time machine to new mac. I had to force quit and it seemed to not have worked, I now finally got it to complete but have found that Multiple user accounts have been created. I know which one is...