Hi everybody, this is a great board! I've learned a lot in my time lurking, but this is something that has me stumped.
We have three computers in the house; My TiBook, a G4 tower (733MHz, 512 MB RAM), and a PIII 600 Sony Vaio running Win2K (my girlfriend is a VB developer). Anyway, the G4 tower is our main surf-the-web-check-email-do-whatever computer, so it's the only one with multiple users, and is currently running OS 9.2. I've been running OS X on my TiBook for a while and I absolutely love it. There are a few problems (crashing, freezing, not waking up well, waking up without the keyboard, &c.) that the tower is having that used to occur on my PowerBook, but stopped when I switched to OS X. So now I want to switch to OS X on the tower in the hopes that these issues will cease there as they did on my laptop. And, well, I just plain prefer OS X. *shrug*
The crux of the problem is this: the tower has two users, myself and Mercedes (my girlfriend). Mercedes is an avid websurfer and has tons of favorites in IE. She also has piles of email and contacts in Outlook Express. How do I get OS X to recognize all this info? I tried creating a user account for her in OS X and opening OE in classic mode, but it just pulled up all of my old messages from my own email account in OE/classic; I couldn't get it to find her stuff. I tried finding all her info in the users folder and in the classic folder and importing it from there, but again, I couldn't find it. It's like OS X won't recognize any OS 9 user except me. Anyone have any ideas? I did find the importing IE favorites thread in the FAQ forum, but haven't tried it yet. I guess the issue here is I'm trying to bring in a user who is not the root user (me) that registered the machine and all that when it first fired up.
Much thanks to anyone who can offer suggestions. I'm stuck.
We have three computers in the house; My TiBook, a G4 tower (733MHz, 512 MB RAM), and a PIII 600 Sony Vaio running Win2K (my girlfriend is a VB developer). Anyway, the G4 tower is our main surf-the-web-check-email-do-whatever computer, so it's the only one with multiple users, and is currently running OS 9.2. I've been running OS X on my TiBook for a while and I absolutely love it. There are a few problems (crashing, freezing, not waking up well, waking up without the keyboard, &c.) that the tower is having that used to occur on my PowerBook, but stopped when I switched to OS X. So now I want to switch to OS X on the tower in the hopes that these issues will cease there as they did on my laptop. And, well, I just plain prefer OS X. *shrug*
The crux of the problem is this: the tower has two users, myself and Mercedes (my girlfriend). Mercedes is an avid websurfer and has tons of favorites in IE. She also has piles of email and contacts in Outlook Express. How do I get OS X to recognize all this info? I tried creating a user account for her in OS X and opening OE in classic mode, but it just pulled up all of my old messages from my own email account in OE/classic; I couldn't get it to find her stuff. I tried finding all her info in the users folder and in the classic folder and importing it from there, but again, I couldn't find it. It's like OS X won't recognize any OS 9 user except me. Anyone have any ideas? I did find the importing IE favorites thread in the FAQ forum, but haven't tried it yet. I guess the issue here is I'm trying to bring in a user who is not the root user (me) that registered the machine and all that when it first fired up.
Much thanks to anyone who can offer suggestions. I'm stuck.