Hi everyone,
I'm a senior and relative Mac Newbie so I am most appreciative that this board is here to help us out. Please forgive if some of these seem like pretty basic questions, but we are learning as we go.
After much research on how to proceed, I upgraded my mid 2009 iMac from SL to Yosemite. Previously we had only one user account which both my husband and I shared (it was the ADMIN acct). After the upgrade, I realized for security reasons we should not be surfing out of the ADMIN account, so we set up 2 separate accounts (one for each of us) on the iMac. My questions are
1) is there a way of sharing the iTunes library/playlist we had set up previously on each of our new accounts?
2) How about the photos? We could set up our own photo libraries but we would still have to move the pics from the Admin account. I understand that iCloud could be used to transfer them, but would really prefer NOT to use it for any pics. (kinds of creeps me out having my photos "up there")
3) Likewise our documents folders, lots of stuff in there, how do we separate them out?
I did go to the Systems Preferences/Sharing and thought file sharing may be an option but it seems to be for users on other computers?
Any advice to help to sort this out would be greatly appreciated!
I'm a senior and relative Mac Newbie so I am most appreciative that this board is here to help us out. Please forgive if some of these seem like pretty basic questions, but we are learning as we go.
After much research on how to proceed, I upgraded my mid 2009 iMac from SL to Yosemite. Previously we had only one user account which both my husband and I shared (it was the ADMIN acct). After the upgrade, I realized for security reasons we should not be surfing out of the ADMIN account, so we set up 2 separate accounts (one for each of us) on the iMac. My questions are
1) is there a way of sharing the iTunes library/playlist we had set up previously on each of our new accounts?
2) How about the photos? We could set up our own photo libraries but we would still have to move the pics from the Admin account. I understand that iCloud could be used to transfer them, but would really prefer NOT to use it for any pics. (kinds of creeps me out having my photos "up there")
3) Likewise our documents folders, lots of stuff in there, how do we separate them out?
I did go to the Systems Preferences/Sharing and thought file sharing may be an option but it seems to be for users on other computers?
Any advice to help to sort this out would be greatly appreciated!
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