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<blockquote data-quote="dang0001" data-source="post: 412043" data-attributes="member: 32433"><p>Hey All,</p><p></p><p>I bought my first Mac yesterday and was hoping someone here could help answer a few questions related to user accounts. (I got the 15-inch iBook Pro with the 2.4 GHz processor, and man, is it a beauty!)</p><p></p><p>1) I've heard a lot of discussion about User Accounts, and if I've understood it correctly, most people recommend having at least two accounts -- one with administrative privileges, which I use only when installing software and doing other administrative chores and the other, which does NOT have administrative privileges, that I use the rest of the time.</p><p></p><p>Am I correct so far? If so, I'm running in to a problem:</p><p></p><p>2) I installed Thunderbird on my machine and migrated three years worth of email over to it. I also installed Firefox and set it up with Adblock, NoScript and several other extensions.</p><p></p><p>It was a lot of work, so imagine my disappointment when I logged into my non-administrative account, fired up Thunderbird and discovered that none of the email I had imported was there! It turns out the email is there when I open Thunderbird in the administrative account, but not with the non-administrative account. Similarly, none of the extensions show up when I open Firefox using the non-administrative account.</p><p></p><p>Is there a way to install a program and have it apply to both accounts? Please tell me there is. It took more than an hour to get Thunderbird and Firefox set up correctly, and I really don't want to have to duplicate the steps.</p><p></p><p>Thanks so much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dang0001, post: 412043, member: 32433"] Hey All, I bought my first Mac yesterday and was hoping someone here could help answer a few questions related to user accounts. (I got the 15-inch iBook Pro with the 2.4 GHz processor, and man, is it a beauty!) 1) I've heard a lot of discussion about User Accounts, and if I've understood it correctly, most people recommend having at least two accounts -- one with administrative privileges, which I use only when installing software and doing other administrative chores and the other, which does NOT have administrative privileges, that I use the rest of the time. Am I correct so far? If so, I'm running in to a problem: 2) I installed Thunderbird on my machine and migrated three years worth of email over to it. I also installed Firefox and set it up with Adblock, NoScript and several other extensions. It was a lot of work, so imagine my disappointment when I logged into my non-administrative account, fired up Thunderbird and discovered that none of the email I had imported was there! It turns out the email is there when I open Thunderbird in the administrative account, but not with the non-administrative account. Similarly, none of the extensions show up when I open Firefox using the non-administrative account. Is there a way to install a program and have it apply to both accounts? Please tell me there is. It took more than an hour to get Thunderbird and Firefox set up correctly, and I really don't want to have to duplicate the steps. Thanks so much. [/QUOTE]
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