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Save Your Marriage With OS X Lion

“Dear, where did you put the pictures I had on the desktop?”

“in the folder called “Wife’s crap” on the desktop…”

“Why?? Is it hurting you in some way??”

“No, but it’s a mess, do we keep all the pots, pans and spices on the counter when we ain’t cooking”

“Aaaauuurrgggg!”

NEXT DAY

“Oh dearest wife…”

“Yes?”

“I had a Photoshop document open, and it would seem Photoshop is no longer running…”

“Yea, it was in the way, I closed it.”

“Ah, that would explain it, guess those changes I was in the middle of irrevocably committed…”

“What??”

“I said can you pass me that bottle of rum….”

The Solution…

Conversations have been going online this in single Mac households for many many years now. Why not just enable Multiple Users? Well, truth is, running multiple users hogs a lot of system resources, and when one or more people are a power user, they need ever byte of RAM they can get.

But, Apple may be responsible for saving many a marriage with Lion, with it’s new Resume feature. When you Logout of your account now, a new window comes up and asks if you wish to save your windows and applications; click yes and never worry bout your significant other complaining again!

If you had a browser window open at Gizmodo, iTunes playing some oldies, Mail open with a draft being written and Photoshop open with your latest LOL Cats creation, you can logout and be assured as soon as you log back in, it will all come back just the way you left it hover cat and all.

Now, my wife can have her own account; she can have her messy desktop, she can hog all the Safari tiles, no more shared Mail. I can log her out to free up the memory I need, and she can come right back like I was never there.

How do you benefit from Resume? Just go to your System Preferences, Accounts, and set up each individual an account of their own. Lion with automatically ask you if you want to save the windows and applications each time you log out of an account.

BEWARE: The system is essentially taking a snapshot of your existing windows, applications and settings. If you have a program that is misbehaving, and you wish to restart in an attempt to get it to smarten up, you MUST take the check off the option to save windows and applications.

This way, you are actually getting the apps to dump their current RAM image and allowing it to properly restart, hopefully giving it an attitude adjustment….if you continue to have troubles, you can always give The Stem a call….:-)

By Ryszard Gold of The Stem

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Ryszard (Rick) Gold, From Calgary, Alberta, Canada has over 20 years of experience working with Apple products in a technical capacity. Passionate about technology in general, his natural troubleshooting abilities, curiosity and appreciation of good design lead him into working exclusively with Apple Computer products.
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