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| From | Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system |
| Subject | Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 |
| Date | 2018-09-24 20:23 -0600 |
| Organization | albasani.net |
| Message-ID | <poc66a$mcg$1@news.albasani.net> (permalink) |
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On 9/24/18 1:07 AM, Bernd Fröhlich wrote:
> Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> wrote:
>
>> You don't know this woman, I would not bet against her setting it up
>> herself.
>>
>> That's a real downside of a Mac, it's so damned easy to use without
>> knowing what you are doing.
>
> No big deal. I set up one of my older Macs for my mother in law.
> She likes to play around and test things out (which is good).
> Once she fu**ed up the System-folder by deleting some stuff.
> My fault, because she had the admin-password.
> I changed the admin Password and now she can mess around in her
> user-folder all she wants without beeing able to trash the system.
> Problem solved :-)
ROFL
When I fix someone's Windows system, I create an Administrator account
with admin privileges, and then a standard users account. Then, I tell
them, if they use the admin account, I'll kill 'em! LOL
--
Ken
Mac OS X 10.11.6
Firefox 59.0.1 (64 bit)
Thunderbird 60.0.2
"My brain is like lightning, a quick flash
and it's gone!"
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Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2018-09-20 18:01 -0600
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-20 20:22 -0400
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2018-09-20 18:37 -0600
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-20 20:51 -0400
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2018-09-20 19:45 -0600
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-20 22:09 -0400
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2018-09-21 05:08 -0600
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-21 09:20 -0400
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2018-09-21 09:06 -0600
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-21 11:31 -0400
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2018-09-21 10:50 -0600
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2018-09-21 12:53 -0400
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-21 13:06 -0400
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2018-09-21 12:40 -0400
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 befr@eaglesoft.de (Bernd Fröhlich) - 2018-09-24 09:07 +0200
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2018-09-24 20:23 -0600
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-21 22:38 +0000
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-21 18:54 -0400
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-21 11:13 +0000
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2018-09-21 10:49 -0600
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-21 13:06 -0400
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-21 22:47 +0000
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 georg.schwarz@freenet.de (Georg Schwarz) - 2018-09-21 19:21 +0200
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-21 13:24 -0400
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-21 22:49 +0000
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 georg.schwarz@freenet.de (Georg Schwarz) - 2018-09-22 00:55 +0200
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2018-09-21 19:14 -0600
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-22 07:45 +0000
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2018-09-22 07:40 -0600
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 georg.schwarz@freenet.de (Georg Schwarz) - 2018-09-22 00:51 +0200
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-09-21 13:41 +1200
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2018-09-21 05:17 -0600
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2018-09-25 20:20 -0600
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-25 22:26 -0400
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2018-09-25 21:04 -0600
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-25 23:09 -0400
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2018-09-26 08:09 +0200
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-09-27 00:49 +1200
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2018-09-26 07:37 -0600
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2018-09-27 08:08 +0100
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-28 17:43 +0000
Re: Updating a MacBook Pro, mid-2012 Krzysztof Mitko <invalid@kmitko.at.list.dot.pl> - 2018-09-26 05:56 +0200
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