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RE: Two Items -

On Thursday, April 29, 2004, at 11:39AM, Fendley, Matthew <email@hidden> wrote:

>Being a former Windows person, the method I use to keep students from saving
>to the desktop is lame but is to set the desktop permissions for the student
>account to "read only" (\Users\username\Desktop) This of course only worked
>because we have generic, local accounts that the students use on the Macs.
>I also had to remember to change the settings for programs that want to save
>or download files to the desktop by default. (IE, Netscape, screen capture,
>etc).

You can change the default download location; in Safari, it's a preference.

>
>We are also fortunate enough to have Mac students that don't know how to
>check their desktop permissions and realize they can change them themselves.
>

Change the owner of the folder, change the group, make public read only.

>If any of our students are on this mailing list, I'm hosed.
>
>
>
>> ----------
>> From: email@hidden on behalf of Alan
>> Haskell
>> Reply To: email@hidden
>> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 10:12 AM
>> To: email@hidden
>> Subject: Two Items -
>>
>> Our workstations are running OS X (v3.3).
>>
>> Does anyone have a way to limit the number of printed copies of a
>> document? (The old On Guard did the job, but .....)
>>
>> Does anyone have a way to move files saved on the desktop to the
>> document folder - or the trash - at startup? An alternative would be to
>> somehow block saving to the desktop.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --
>>
>> Alan Haskell
>> High School Computer Resource Center
>> University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
>> 1362 East 59th Street
>> Chicago, IL 60637-1793
>> Office: 1 773 702-5419
>> Fax: 1 773 702-7455
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