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Forgive me if this seems like a dumb question. I have always liked to get a rudimentary understanding how something works even before I find myself in a position of using it.
Pointless example: The year was 1985 and I remember staying up for hours looking at and shaking a Transformers box in an attempt to figure how how it transformed before buying it. Whenever I did get it, it went from robot to gun instantly thanks to my snappy research!
(as I recall, Kmart wasn't very happy with me for shaking an unpurchased toy)
Moving forward...I don't have a Mac (yet), but I will soon. Can't wait for Uncle Sam to deposit my income tax check so I can join the family. But in the meantime, I had a lingering query. Probably silly, but here goes. I have a tattoo interest. As such I keep a lot (maybe 500) of photos of various work done in mutiple categories and albums of work done and ideas of work to-be-done.
A good 60% of these phones are not kid friendly.
Currently I use a program by Jasc called "Media Center Plus" to organize my photos on my PC. Clearly this will not load or work on the Mac, which isn't really a concern anyway since iPhoto will (likely) do a great job of managing them.
However...
I understand that iPhoto is more or less an open book. I'm not very keen on letting my kids (5 & 7 years old) use my Mac if they have access to albums which aren't kid-friendly. I'm not sure if password-protecting some albums is possible (or a workable solution) in iPhoto, and a removable drive may not be the best of solutions since the thumbnail will likely remain in iPhoto even after its unplugged.
I therefore wonder if a seperate user account is the best solution. Like the PC, I'd likely store these photos in a seperate file on the hard drive, but would they be truely hidden? Lets say a pretty clever 7-year old got on my Mac in the main account, got in iPhoto (which I'd used a few minutes earlier but on the seperate user I'm calling "Tattoo". The plane! The plane! Whoops, sorry about that. Professional not-so-inside joke. Anway would she still be able to access my photos since they're saved on the same hard drive but in a different folder, or can I restrict that folder specifically to the "Tattoo" user account on my Mac?
Thoughts? Ideas?
Pointless example: The year was 1985 and I remember staying up for hours looking at and shaking a Transformers box in an attempt to figure how how it transformed before buying it. Whenever I did get it, it went from robot to gun instantly thanks to my snappy research!
(as I recall, Kmart wasn't very happy with me for shaking an unpurchased toy)
Moving forward...I don't have a Mac (yet), but I will soon. Can't wait for Uncle Sam to deposit my income tax check so I can join the family. But in the meantime, I had a lingering query. Probably silly, but here goes. I have a tattoo interest. As such I keep a lot (maybe 500) of photos of various work done in mutiple categories and albums of work done and ideas of work to-be-done.
A good 60% of these phones are not kid friendly.
Currently I use a program by Jasc called "Media Center Plus" to organize my photos on my PC. Clearly this will not load or work on the Mac, which isn't really a concern anyway since iPhoto will (likely) do a great job of managing them.
However...
I understand that iPhoto is more or less an open book. I'm not very keen on letting my kids (5 & 7 years old) use my Mac if they have access to albums which aren't kid-friendly. I'm not sure if password-protecting some albums is possible (or a workable solution) in iPhoto, and a removable drive may not be the best of solutions since the thumbnail will likely remain in iPhoto even after its unplugged.
I therefore wonder if a seperate user account is the best solution. Like the PC, I'd likely store these photos in a seperate file on the hard drive, but would they be truely hidden? Lets say a pretty clever 7-year old got on my Mac in the main account, got in iPhoto (which I'd used a few minutes earlier but on the seperate user I'm calling "Tattoo". The plane! The plane! Whoops, sorry about that. Professional not-so-inside joke. Anway would she still be able to access my photos since they're saved on the same hard drive but in a different folder, or can I restrict that folder specifically to the "Tattoo" user account on my Mac?
Thoughts? Ideas?