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several accounts in Mac OS X

Hey there!

I was wondering whether you've made any experiences with this:

I set up different user accounts on my macbook (personal/admin/guest/uni) so that I could supposedly "focus" on my uni-work and "not be distracted" when working. Trying to create some sort of an "office-atmosphere" on my macbook so to speak...

Turns out this is more difficult then I had thought. I keep finding articles, documents etcetera when surfing from my personal account that - ideally - I would like to transfer to my uni-account as quickly as possible and just keep it there.

Any suggestions on how this could be handled better?

Thanx a lot. Have a good day!

Martin

TOPICS: Mac OS X
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For file transfers, could you...

For file transfers, could you drop things into the Public folder of the other account (or the Dropbox folder inside it)?

 
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