I have recently got my first Mac and am struggling to find a solution to the following situation.
The Mac gets used by my girlfriend and I on a daily basis. We both logon under the same user account for ease, and so that things like our iPhoto and iTunes library are available to both of us. I think that having separate logons would just be a nuisance in our case.
The two things I am really having problems with in this multi user environment is mail and address book. Is there any way that when you open mail you can get it to prompt you which mailbox you want it to open? The same way you would use an MS Outlook profile. I have it setup so that both our gmail mailboxes are in mail which is a workable solution but it would be great if you could choose which mailbox you wanted to see when opening mail, so that once opened you would only see the selected mailbox.
I would like to set address book to sync with each of our gmail accounts but it appears that you can only sync with one gmail account. Is there a way around this? Ideally I would like it to sync with both our accounts and group the contacts by account.
If possible, I would like to use the built in tools for this but I would consider some third party ones also.
Are there any enhancements in Lion that would help with this situation? Could iCloud help?
I would appreciate any comments or suggestions you have.
Thanks.
The Mac gets used by my girlfriend and I on a daily basis. We both logon under the same user account for ease, and so that things like our iPhoto and iTunes library are available to both of us. I think that having separate logons would just be a nuisance in our case.
The two things I am really having problems with in this multi user environment is mail and address book. Is there any way that when you open mail you can get it to prompt you which mailbox you want it to open? The same way you would use an MS Outlook profile. I have it setup so that both our gmail mailboxes are in mail which is a workable solution but it would be great if you could choose which mailbox you wanted to see when opening mail, so that once opened you would only see the selected mailbox.
I would like to set address book to sync with each of our gmail accounts but it appears that you can only sync with one gmail account. Is there a way around this? Ideally I would like it to sync with both our accounts and group the contacts by account.
If possible, I would like to use the built in tools for this but I would consider some third party ones also.
Are there any enhancements in Lion that would help with this situation? Could iCloud help?
I would appreciate any comments or suggestions you have.
Thanks.