ITS - Technology & Learning Services Page 13
Revised October 8, 2004
Figure 15 – Accounts Window in Finder with Fast User Switching Turned On
The user with the orange checkmark next to their name is the current logged in user. When you
select a different name in the Accounts window (e.g., Coda Rae in this example), it appears that
your entire world slides visibly off-screen as though it’s mounted on the side of a rotating
cube. The new user is asked to login to access their account. When you select your name from
the account window, it requests your password and changes back to your account with all your
open windows and programs just how you left it. To log out a user, switch to them and select
Log Out from the Apple menu. If you try to shut down or restart a Mac while other people are
logged in, a dialog box will tell you: “There are currently logged in users who may lose unsaved
changes if you shut down this computer.” You’ll be asked to type in an administrator’s name
and password to establish that you know what you’re doing and can shut it down.
Here’s a great idea suggested by David Pogue in his book
. Although Fast User Switching may seem like a great feature for a family or
work environment where you have several different people on a computer, you can also use this
feature to keep different work environments separate for yourself – even if you’re the only one
that uses the Mac! For instance, you can treat each account as a separate environment. One
account can be for word processing with the Mac’s colors, Desktop picture, Dock, programs,
and palettes set in a particular way. Another account can serve as your graphics environment
with Photoshop automatically open and its various tools displayed. A third account could be
your Internet world with Mail and Safari always open and online. A fourth account could be
your video world with the screen resolution set up for iMovie or Final Cut Pro. Then, as you
proceed through the workday, you can simply switch among the different accounts as though
they’re separate workstations, resulting in a minimum of preference-changing and window
adjusting.
Folder Structure in Mac OS X
The folder structure is slightly different in Mac OS X:
1. The Computer folder at the top level of the folder hierarchy shows all the storage
devices (Hard Drives, CD- or DVD-ROM, Zip Disks, Firewire Drives, etc.) that are
currently connected to your Mac.
2. All your applications reside in the Applications folder.
3. You have a System folder that contains a Library of important data. For the most part,
don’t mess with your System folder.
(32 paginas)
Manymanuals.com
Manymanuals.de
Manymanuals.fr
Manymanuals.it
Manymanuals.pl
Manymanuals.cz
Manymanuals.es
Manymanuals-pt.com
Comentarios a estos manuales