Your Mac comes with a pre-established Guest User account. This account lets friends or clients use your Mac temporarily, but nothing they do is saved on your Mac, although it could be saved to a Shared file or to a remote storage site like Dropbox or an external hard or flash drive.
Oct 13, 2015 Dear All I am eligible for the MS Home Use Program via work. My wife and I share a MacBook Pro, and both of our user profiles are classed as administrators. If I install the MS Office for Mac 2016 suite for one of the users, will all users be able to share the applications? Sep 25, 2017 Sharing Apps between user accounts on Windows 10. How do I share my MS Office Suite with all users on a single device? For example, PPT is only showing up on the admin account not my children's accounts. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. Nov 07, 2016 If you have administrator priviledge, create a new folder in your account called Applications, copy the app from /Applications to the new local folder and then delete it from /Applications. Also, depending on how the app installer works, you may just be able to double click on the.dmg and drag it to your local Applications folder instead of.
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By giving someone a Guest User desktop to use, your Desktop and everything you’ve so neatly organized doesn’t get poked around or messed up.
Your Mac has only one Guest account because multiple users will access the same Guest account. To enable the Guest account, follow these steps:
- Choose Command→System Preferences, and then click the Users & Groups icon.If the lock icon in the lower-left corner of the preferences window is locked, click to unlock it and then type your password in the dialog that appears. Press Return to unlock your Mac’s user account details.
- Click the Guest User icon that appears in the list box on the left to open the Guest User dialog, as shown in this figure.
- Select the Allow Guests to Log In to This Computer check box, which allows anyone to use your Mac’s Guest account without a password.
- (Optional) Click the Open Parental Controls button if you want to specify which programs guests can use (or not use) and whether they can access the Internet.
- (Optional) Select or deselect the Allow Guests to Connect to Shared Folders check box.If this option is selected, a Guest account can read files created by other accounts and stored in a special shared folder or the other users’ Public folder.
- Click the Close button of the Accounts preferences window.
Welcome to Mac Help, our new column focused on helping you, the reader, with troubles you're having on your Mac. This installment's question comes from Doug Larsen, who needs help sharing files between his and his wife's user accounts on their family Mac.
Dough writes:
My wife and I sometimes want to share files with each other. A year ago we got our first Mac but before that we were both longtime Windows users. In fact neither of us had even touched a Mac before that so everything about OSX is new to us.
I setup different user accounts for us and for the life of me I can't find an easy way to share files. With Windows you have the Public folders where files are easily shared but on the Mac there doesn't seem to be anything like it. I always have to find some clunky workaround to share a file with my wife who is using the very same machine.
There is an equivalent to the Public folders feature in Windows, but it's pretty well hidden. For whatever reason, Apple doesn't make it very easy to use. Fortunately it's not difficult to set up.
First of all, setting up different user accounts on the same Mac is a great way to keep things organized, and I wish more people would do it. You share the same applications and system files, but your individual settings and your documents are completely different. It's an efficient and productive way to let more than one person use the same Mac. So kudos, Doug, on doing the right thing.
If you check your /Users directory, you should see a folder called 'Shared.' That folder is dedicated to shared files that can be managed between different user accounts. A few of the applications I've installed use it so they can run without any trouble regardless of which user account is active, but you can use it for whatever you wish.
To access the Shared folder, simply open the Finder and select the Go menu, then select Go to folder... (or type command-shift-G). Then type /Users and hit return.
You should be staring at the list of user folders on your Mac, with a Shared folder there as well. If you'd like to make it easier to access, simply drag that Shared folder into the Favorites sidebar on the left of your Finder window, or (as I pointed out in last week's column), command-drag it to the Finder toolbar if you'd prefer to have it on the top.
Either way you'll be able to access the Shared folder instantly, so you and your wife can both have access to common files you need. Whoever created the file will retain ownership of it, so the second person will need to make a copy of it and edit the copy.
Another way to do it is to use a third-party sync tool like Dropbox, but that requires you to upload and download the file using the Internet. This way the file stays local only on your Mac, which could be an important consideration if security (or bandwidth conservation) is paramount.
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