I think there's some confusion in the wording here. You say "divide my Mac" yet you address a need for a user account that has write privileges on the machine.
If you need a guest account that has write privileges, simply log in under whatever account you have administrative rights with, go to the "Users and Groups" preference pane, and create a new "regular" user (one without admin rights). That account will be able to create files and save them to their home folder on the machine. Now.... If you want to create a completely separate partition on the hard drive for use by another user, yes, that would require partitioning of the hard drive. Considering that the permission structure on Macs is pretty robust, I'm not sure why one would make the effort to set up another partition for a user's storage. That's mighty extreme and not a good use of real estate. Dan Sent from my iPad > On Dec 15, 2015, at 1:45 PM, astrasfogel--- via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > As a matter of fact, this isn't a trivial question. My son did this for me > on another iMac, and he had to partition the hard drive. Sent from my > T-Mobile 4G LTE device > ------ Original message------From: Curt Raymond via MercedesDate: Tue, Dec > 15, 2015 1:22 PMTo: Mercedes Discussion List;Cc: Curt Raymond;Subject:Re: > [MBZ] OT: How to divide my IMac > Open the system preferences, either from the icon in the doc or the apple > menu in the upper left.Then open your favorite web browser, type > www.google.com in the address bar, in the Google window type in "how do I > make a new mac user".Sheesh, do you need help to find the bathroom? You've > got a world of instructions out there, don't make people hold your hand like > you're 4, learn to do for yourself once in awhile.-Curt From: Andrew > Strasfogel To: Curt Raymond ; Mercedes Discussion List Sent: Tuesday, > December 15, 2015 12:56 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: How to divide my IMac > Nope. How do I access Users and Groups?On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 12:20 PM, > Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:Is this a trick question?The Users & Groups > system preference would be the obvious place. Also obviously you can't be > logged in as guest to make the change.-Curt From: Andrew Strasfogel via > Mercedes To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: Andrew Strasfogel Sent: Tuesday, > December 15, 2015 11:59 AM Subj ect: [MBZ] OT: How to divide my IMacI have a Macbook Pro and IMac desktop . Each has a guest login thatdoesn't allow the guest to save data or files when logging out - the workmust be abandoned. How can I create a second user rather than a "guest" sothat they can log in independently and keep/save their work when they logout?_______________________________________http://www.okiebenz.comTo search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com_______________________________________http://www.okiebenz.comTo search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________http://www.okiebenz.comTo search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/m ercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
