This month’s column is simple: it’s a bunch of things that people don’t do that really tick me off. A diver’s list of missed behaviours, abandoned opportunities and plain lack of common sense in working practices. Things you’ve all had quite long enough to get right by now.
One machine, one login
Stop this nonsense! Even though I agree with anyone puzzled by the vehemence of Apple’s and Microsoft’s long-standing advice, that disabling the default Administrator account slams the door on hackers and the like, that shouldn’t cast a huge shadow over all other account-making options and outcomes.
My standard Mac build now has two accounts for me, one for my partner, the Administrator account, and something called “Fixer”. I use this because said partner is an incorrigible shutterbug, inclined to shoot first and ask questions later. Her account – and now, mine too – can’t live happily on the basic boot volume of the Mac, because we both have excessive photo and video libraries. Of course, as an old fool I’ve long understood how to keep stuff on extra volumes: the difficulty is that not everybody blithely navigates a complete library space spread over many hard drives, when so many packages go for the default container (or even give up on local and prompt you to open the internet, instead).
So, I use “Fixer” to hack the other accounts and move their macOS Home folders to much bigger storage than the boot SSDs in our Mac Pro collection will permit. You can’t pull
