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Separate contact lists for separate accounts?
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:16 pm
by DMCrimson
Is this possible at all? I'm sharing this comp with my wife, and we both use messenger for various purposes. MSN for mac isn't usable at all, and Mercury, being Java, is just too heavy and prone to hogging memory. Today, I installed latest version of Adium, and set up both accounts... and to my surprise our contacts were all mixed up when both were signed in. I wonder if there will be possibility of several separate contact lists someday...
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:18 pm
by evands
You should set up a user account in Mac OS X for yourself and one for your wife; this separates out all applications' data, such as Safari's web history and favorites, too. Be sure to turn on Fast User Switching so you don't have to have one person's programs all close for the other person to log in.
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:22 pm
by DMCrimson
hehe, that's just the whole point... she doesn't want to learn those things... I once tried setting us both accounts, and it failed:D She was constantly using my account:P
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:35 pm
by The_Tick
DMCrimson wrote:hehe, that's just the whole point... she doesn't want to learn those things... I once tried setting us both accounts, and it failed:D She was constantly using my account:P
Log out!
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 9:51 pm
by DMCrimson
beuh, wrong option:P
Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 10:19 am
by bgannin
Or you could unique names for each group and use the tear off groups from the SoC project in 1.2 when it is released to keep them separate.
Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 5:50 pm
by evands
DMCrimson wrote:hehe, that's just the whole point... she doesn't want to learn those things... I once tried setting us both accounts, and it failed:D She was constantly using my account:P
Pretty easy to enforce this, actually. Here's how I set it up for my parents, who share an MBP:
* One account for each person
* Fast User Switching enabled
* Set the screensaver on each account to turn on after 5 minutes of inactivity and to require a password to get out of the screensaver
When the screensaver activates and then someone tries to use the computer, a password prompt is shown. The current logged-in person's name is shown. If that's not
your name, click the big Switch Users button. You're then given a chance to click your name. Easy and self-enforcing.