Hi everyone!
Even though I've now used Macs for a decade this summer (might a little celebration be in order), I have never shared any of my Macs (sheer selfishness really). However, the time has come (the late '08 unibody MacBook that my wife uses is starting to show its age, and my '12 MBA is sitting unused most of the time) for me to share my 2012 MBA running Mavericks with my wonderful wife.
So here are my questions:
1.Does TM automatically back up all accounts, or do I need to fiddle with settings?
2. Will the newly created account have access to all previously installed applications on the Mac (unless unrestricted this somehow?)?
3. If we share apps (word and excel mostly) will she be able to open word/excel docs in my user account?
4. Can she just set up her mail accounts in her user account?
5. Can I just untick 'automatically log in' box to stop my account from being the first one when mac is started up?
6. Can you keep 2 apple IDs completely separately? By this I mean, can she use 'her' (she has an ipad) Safari cloud tabs, iMessage, iTunes purchased apps etc? Could she sync her iOS devices, or do they have to synced with her 'home' MacBook? (This is just out of curiosity really, I see no need to duplicate her itunes backups across two different Macs).
Thank you for reading.
Even though I've now used Macs for a decade this summer (might a little celebration be in order), I have never shared any of my Macs (sheer selfishness really). However, the time has come (the late '08 unibody MacBook that my wife uses is starting to show its age, and my '12 MBA is sitting unused most of the time) for me to share my 2012 MBA running Mavericks with my wonderful wife.
So here are my questions:
1.Does TM automatically back up all accounts, or do I need to fiddle with settings?
2. Will the newly created account have access to all previously installed applications on the Mac (unless unrestricted this somehow?)?
3. If we share apps (word and excel mostly) will she be able to open word/excel docs in my user account?
4. Can she just set up her mail accounts in her user account?
5. Can I just untick 'automatically log in' box to stop my account from being the first one when mac is started up?
6. Can you keep 2 apple IDs completely separately? By this I mean, can she use 'her' (she has an ipad) Safari cloud tabs, iMessage, iTunes purchased apps etc? Could she sync her iOS devices, or do they have to synced with her 'home' MacBook? (This is just out of curiosity really, I see no need to duplicate her itunes backups across two different Macs).
Thank you for reading.