I have two user accounts set up on my mac. User drew
I use for most things, but if I'm making a screencast I'll switch to the demo
user. I know that the demo
user has a clean desktop, and the font size is larger than usual in my terminal and text editors, making everything a bit more legible when capturing the screen. When I record a screencast as the demo
user, I save the file to /Users/Shared/screencasts
. As I understand it, the /Users/Shared
directory is supposed to be accessible to all user accounts on the mac. If I created and saved a screenflow document as the demo
user, I should be able to read and write that file when logged in as user drew
.
That was the theory, but it didn't always work out that well in practice. I would occasionally find that a directory was only writable by one user or the other. Perhaps I'd open a screenflow document as user drew
and attempt to export the video to the same directory, only to find that the directory was owned by demo
, meaning that I couldn't cr