[X4U] Advice sought on a Mac book for an elderly beginner-level user.

[Jamie Kahn Genet]

Heh, well I'm damn certain that's not the case here. I'm the admin
user on the Mac in question and know exactly what's going on there.
That said I'd LOVE to cede admin access, but it's just too dangerous
in the hands of someone who randomly tries things like setting prefs,
forgets she ever did that or fails to connect her actions with the
sudden change in her workspace. It makes me almost want to use the
parental controls on these elderly Mac user's accounts ( if it
wouldn't create more troubles than it solves in these cases)...

What was that simple Apple UI for kids that locked the user out of the
Classic OS? It replaced icons with giant one-click-to-open buttons and
you could select what programs the user had access to. That's what I
think I need for OSX! :-D

Regards,
 Jamie Kahn Genet

2008/5/3 Ed Graf <edgraf at earthlink.net>:
>
>  On May 2, 2008, at 3:30 PM, x4u-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
> wrote:
>
>
> > Sorry to vent, but I feel your woe. She loves her computer, an indigo iMac
> > her son gave her. I sometimes wonder that, like the iPod, it might have
> been
> > more kind _not_ to have given it to her.
> >
>
>
>  I must say, it appears to be more complicated than depicted.
>
>  My mom bought her own iMac, set it up, but then "needed me" constantly to
> copy/paste.  Got her organized on Quicken but she could barely (her words)
> set up an organizational mode to storage.  Ended up driving to her house
> much more than normal (than I really had time for - I thought).
>
>  After she past, following my dad, and as a part of deconstructing her
> estate, I found that she was operating five email lists and managed her own
> web-site, all on the iMac.
>
>  It took me until then, after she left, to realize all she wanted was to see
> me.
>
>  Sometimes I can be such a moron.
>
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