My brother passed several months ago. I inherited his Mac OSX. Awesome computer, even though I do Windows primarily.
My quandary: I've set it up for my 15 yr old son to use. All data has been organized (removed/archived offsite) appropriately. I'd like to assign my son as the primary/admin user. I'm curious as whether it'd be best to just start fresh (format and reload), or change the settings/name of current "home" user.
The hard drive has been partitioned, and there are several awesome apps (for which I still have installation media). I'm worried that changing user settings can cause hiccups later on when using apps loaded by the original user. Also, I'd prefer (although its not imperative) not to have a paritioned hard drive.
Again, I know exactly what I'd do if this was a windows machine, so please forgive my "newbie"-ness. Thanks in advance for any advice.
Sparge
My quandary: I've set it up for my 15 yr old son to use. All data has been organized (removed/archived offsite) appropriately. I'd like to assign my son as the primary/admin user. I'm curious as whether it'd be best to just start fresh (format and reload), or change the settings/name of current "home" user.
The hard drive has been partitioned, and there are several awesome apps (for which I still have installation media). I'm worried that changing user settings can cause hiccups later on when using apps loaded by the original user. Also, I'd prefer (although its not imperative) not to have a paritioned hard drive.
Again, I know exactly what I'd do if this was a windows machine, so please forgive my "newbie"-ness. Thanks in advance for any advice.
Sparge