Question about user accounts

awildgoose

awildgoose

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Is there a way to make another user account that is completely separate from my main user account?
I mean, I know you can make another account, but when I do this, the same amount of HDD space is used up and such.
I would like to know because I want to make another user account and only put movies on it, just movies and maybe a couple other general things, but mainly have it so I can have movies on there and the amount of space it takes up doesn't affect on my main account so I can have more games and such on it.

So, for the people who can make sense out of that, it doable?
Thanks:good:

P.S.: In the right section?
 
What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Whats wrong with putting movies on your original account? Something sounds fishy here.
 
johnb35 said:
What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Whats wrong with putting movies on your original account? Something sounds fishy here.
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I would have to agree with John here. There is no benefit from running two separate user accounts, unless two separate users are using the computer and want to keep their data to themselves.

What exactly are you trying to accomplish here? Sure, you can create a new account and dump all your movie files into that account's home folder, but I don't see what that really accomplishes.
 
Nothing fishy. I want to have two accounts, so I can have movies and such on one and games and such on another. But I have encountered a problem. The two accounts share the same HDD space. I want(ed) to be able to log onto one account (my games account) install 1tb (hypothetically) of games and such.
Then I would like to log onto my movies account and have 1tb (again hypothetically) of HDD space to play with.
Make sense to others yet?:confused:
 
You would need 2 hard drives or a 2tb drive so each account has half the total drive. There is no sense to what you are trying to accomplish.
 
awildgoose said:
Nothing fishy. I want to have two accounts, so I can have movies and such on one and games and such on another. But I have encountered a problem. The two accounts share the same HDD space. I want(ed) to be able to log onto one account (my games account) install 1tb (hypothetically) of games and such.
Then I would like to log onto my movies account and have 1tb (again hypothetically) of HDD space to play with.
Make sense to others yet?:confused:
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you trying to use disk quotas to limit or manage HD space for certain things? Multiple user accounts is not really the solution for this. I just suggest adding more HD space and setting folder limits, if that is what you are after.
 
So basically, the answer is that it can't happen. That was really what I was after, whether or not it is possible.
There is sense in it, but I didn't know if it was possible or not, that's why I asked. I don't really want to limit how much space either, infact the opposite. This was my first time making another account, I've always just used the one. Always wondered if I created another account, if it would act like nothing was on the HDD, well practically nothing. But obviously not.
Thanks.:good:
 
awildgoose said:
So basically, the answer is that it can't happen. That was really what I was after, whether or not it is possible.
There is sense in it, but I didn't know if it was possible or not, that's why I asked. I don't really want to limit how much space either, infact the opposite. This was my first time making another account, I've always just used the one. Always wondered if I created another account, if it would act like nothing was on the HDD, well practically nothing. But obviously not.
Thanks.:good:
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I still don't understand, sorry. You though if you created another user account you could get more HD space? i am not quite following you here.
 
tlarkin said:
I still don't understand, sorry. You though if you created another user account you could get more HD space? i am not quite following you here.
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Yea basically. I had never tried it, you learn through trying don't you?
I got the idea off of school, everyone has their own user login and everyone has a amount of space on the hard drive. But they must have a central, I dunno, server or something perhaps were all the info goes to or something. Not sure. Not really my area of the computing world.
 
awildgoose said:
Yea basically. I had never tried it, you learn through trying don't you?
I got the idea off of school, everyone has their own user login and everyone has a amount of space on the hard drive. But they must have a central, I dunno, server or something perhaps were all the info goes to or something. Not sure. Not really my area of the computing world.
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Those are your home directories which are mapped at log in from a server which houses the storage. Totally different than what you were thinking. Yeah, it's OK man, everyone has to learn by asking questions.
 
tlarkin said:
Those are your home directories which are mapped at log in from a server which houses the storage. Totally different than what you were thinking. Yeah, it's OK man, everyone has to learn by asking questions.
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Yea I was way off, like I said, never toyed with multiple accounts so I had no idea.
Thanks:good:.
 
The only benefit i see in the two user accounts would be so you could have one account less weighed down with running programs so games would run slightly better. Although what it sounds like your trying to do is just separate you movies from games. You best bet would be to create folders for each and put limits on each folder.
 
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