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<blockquote data-quote="danklim" data-source="post: 1781547" data-attributes="member: 384977"><p>Hi</p><p></p><p>I’m making a new, second user account on my mac that i plan to use for banking and sensitive personal information. I have alot of applications on my main account and i’m not entirely sure that i trust them all, so it seems like a good idea to use a different account that doesn’t have so many applications installed.</p><p></p><p>First off, i’m wondering- Is this a good idea/practice? Or could applications installed on the main user account still affect the second user account?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Secondly, I just tried creating a new user account but it had all of the same applications installed as my main user account ( and they just weren’t logged in). When i tried deleting an app from the new user account, it also deleted the app from the main user account.</p><p></p><p>My applications are currently in Daniels Imac> Macintosh HD > Applications. I’m guessing that this means that all of my applications are in a all-user folder now, is that correct? If so, is there any easy and safe way to move the applications to a specific user folder? Is it just a simple as moving the app to the applications folder in my main user account in the finder?</p><p></p><p>Or is there a better way to do this? </p><p></p><p>Thanks, Dan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="danklim, post: 1781547, member: 384977"] Hi I’m making a new, second user account on my mac that i plan to use for banking and sensitive personal information. I have alot of applications on my main account and i’m not entirely sure that i trust them all, so it seems like a good idea to use a different account that doesn’t have so many applications installed. First off, i’m wondering- Is this a good idea/practice? Or could applications installed on the main user account still affect the second user account? Secondly, I just tried creating a new user account but it had all of the same applications installed as my main user account ( and they just weren’t logged in). When i tried deleting an app from the new user account, it also deleted the app from the main user account. My applications are currently in Daniels Imac> Macintosh HD > Applications. I’m guessing that this means that all of my applications are in a all-user folder now, is that correct? If so, is there any easy and safe way to move the applications to a specific user folder? Is it just a simple as moving the app to the applications folder in my main user account in the finder? Or is there a better way to do this? Thanks, Dan [/QUOTE]
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