So.. I let my friend pick up her iMac 21+ at store, alone -- after they transferred her beastware bookmarks, mail etc.
I thought ... by now they must be expert at covering the basics effectively, with gaggles of newbies and ...
as you don't want to teach a friend how to drive ... don't become a distraction.
I set it up at her house.
They had sent her home: as Admin (her first-name as ID of Admin!): with firewall OFF and [blank] as pw -- pure Beastware-think.
(And the iggerant low-pay kiddies apparently are unaware of 38 (last count) rootkits on the CLAM-AV list.)
Unclear now, if I/we should trust the tykes to undo, if this example of their mindsets is average for the course.
As I made no such conceptual errors in my newbie config, I'm not sure if I need to peruse 'MAN share' (properly), find a CL way to assign permissions for mail, browser to her User account only?
(which I created on seeing this horror / before berating a store droid)
-- or find some other way to transfer her mail and Safari data from Admin to new installs of both, within her new User account.
Similar problem re any other 'folders' from XP -- although she has 0 in pix and 'wtf is an iTune?'
Any suggestions? (Dare I leave this repair to the same crew? At least, one 'Buddy' there, acknowledges this was FUBAR.)
Can it be that the kiddies who sell this stuff still believe in the automagic invulnerability of OS-X,
even when configured WRONGLY and delivered to the perpetually un- mis- informed?
(And while she hasn't had her '1 on 1' session, she was as horrified as would be I
-- that her first intro to her machine was inside that madhouse mob-cacophony that Is 'the store'.)
She had to shout, then try to hear, missing lots -- as the demo droid was speaking as-if to an experienced multi-transistorized 20 yo, just not "quite up on new Mac". ie.
Spend $thousands and get no chance for peace/quiet, in order to grok what they are allegedly imparting.
Crazy shit..
PS: Anyone know of a site / book? designed to ease the minimalist user into OS X?
I mean: someone unlikely ever to go beyond a browser and e-mail, despite the cornucopia of possibilities. And a one not very curious about techno == must be KISS.
All her XP activities were, I'm sure memorized / rote. Her main interests are quite elsewhere, but she needs the communications
Gracias for any pregnant info.
oTpy, reform