Different users on a mac

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Just a quick, potentially stupid question.

If I set up another user on my MBP and that user has shed loads of docs, pics etc, would it slow down or affect the other user when they're logged in?

I'm guessing the answer is no, but just wanted to check. :)
 
I'm not a mac expert, but...

I have an Imac with a 500GB hdd. There are two users - me and my girlfriend, we both had gigabytes of images on the hdd. The machine had slowed down a bit, despite doing the cache thing and repairing disk permissions etc, so we recently bought an external hdd and I transferred all my images onto it. No change. Then we transferred my other halves images onto the external hdd and voila - the system sped back up again.

So I'd say yes, it does affect all the users.

Its still not as quick as when we first bought it mind, but not being a mac guru I haven't a clue what else I can do with it...unless anyone can suggest something...hint hint...
 
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treeman said:
Just a quick, potentially stupid question.

If I set up another user on my MBP and that user has shed loads of docs, pics etc, would it slow down or affect the other user when they're logged in?

I'm guessing the answer is no, but just wanted to check. :)
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No, not at all. Unless you fill over 80% of the internal HD's capacity in which case it may affect Virtual Memory performance.
 
Do you use fast user switching? If you do, that can be a huge memory hog and slow things right down :(
 
Jim.R said:
Do you use fast user switching? If you do, that can be a huge memory hog and slow things right down :(
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This would be the only case I know that could cause slowdown, and in fact Apple do not recommend using Fast User switching due to the risk of resource contention issues. However you said you simply moved the images to an external hard drive, and not that you'd removed her account and if you were using fast user switching, I'd have not expected this to have any effect. Any applications/processes that could be causing the slowdown would still be running, and now have to access the external drive rather than an internal one.
 
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