Manage windows across multiple displays?

Anyone know of a solution to manage windows across multiple desktops? I was thinking of something similar to the ability to have certain apps open in certain spaces, as you can do in the Spaces preferences. I frequently use mirroring of my displays and then revert back to having both displays have separate desktop (its a HTPC mac). A script to move all windows back to the main display after I revert back from mirroring would be great.

Actually, if you don't mind having two copies of the content files on the computer (one set for each user account), using home sharing between the two accounts to transfer the music into her account might be the best way to go.
For the basic technique, see Chris CA's post:
iTunes Home Sharing now works between users on same computer
Once you've got the connection set up and you're in her account, when displaying the library you're transferring music from (the library in your account), for your later transfers go down to the bottom of the screen and in "Show:" select "Items not in my library".
Once your music has transfered across to her library, she can delete the music from her library that she doesn't want. (That shouldn't affect the music in your library.)
If you add music to your iTunes library, you can do the same to bring her library up-to-date with the new stuff (or vice versa, if she gets music into her library that you'd quite like in yours).

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I am setting up a separate user account for my partner on my Macbook. I'd like her to be able to use my iTunes library as a starting point for building her own. I think I figured out how to get that started here:
share music between different accounts on a single computer.
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Actually, if you don't mind having two copies of the content files on the computer (one set for each user account), using home sharing between the two accounts to transfer the music into her account might be the best way to go.
For the basic technique, see Chris CA's post:
iTunes Home Sharing now works between users on same computer
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IPhoto and multiple users - how to best manage photos across multiple users

I'm trying to fiure out the best way to setup photo storage on my new iMac. I've been a mac user for many years but never used iPhoto, just managed the photos in the finder and dated the folder/events. I use Photoshop and other image editing apps from time to time too.
My biggest difficulty I'm running into is both my wife an I take a lot of pictures on our phones. We'd like to be able to access them equally but since we are set up as two diffenent users, I don't know the best way to download and access them.
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Move managed library to shared folder on mac so two users can access library?
will that cause problems?
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can both users add photos from their iPhones via iPhoto on their respective accounts and have the new photos show up on the other users iPhoto app?
Yes.
would the newly added photos sharing be automaticall be set to the folder sharing settings? ie, view and edit for both users?
Yes.
if i edit the photos with say photoshop, will the changes show up in iphoto?
If you set this up corrrectly - You can set Photoshop (or any image editor) as an external editor in iPhoto. (Preferences -> General -> Edit Photo: Choose from the Drop Down Menu.) This way, when you double click a pic to edit in iPhoto it will open automatically in Photoshop or your Image Editor, and when you save it it's sent back to iPhoto automatically. This is the only way that edits made in another application will be displayed in iPhoto.
You will need to do this in both accounts.
would timemachine back the data up automatically?
TM can be set to back up externals. There are other options too, of course.
when I upgrade to a new computer will everything work the same.
Yes. Just plug in the extenal and point iPhoto at the external from the new machine.
Regards
TD

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I found this after I posted. Works like a charm
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I just recently bought a new K7D Master-L and I've had a few problems with it. Other than these issues the board has been great, but this is getting pretty annoying and I can't seem to fix it, so I'm posting here for advice/help/solutions.
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Well my system just booted into 640x480x16, so it appears those registry changes didn't fix the issue. The registry settings were simply changed back to 640x480x16 for some reason. I haven't reinstalled the motherboard drivers, but I gathered them all up and I'll try this later today. Here are the latest drivers I found, all from MSI's site:
Onboard AC97 Codec Driver
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Description:   AMD AC97 Codec Driver version 10B
Date:      2002-8-20
http://download.msi.com.tw/support/dvr_exe/AC97_Codec.exe>
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http://download.msi.com.tw/support/dvr_exe/intel_Win2000_for_100.exe>
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http://download.msi.com.tw/support/dvr_exe/MINIPORT_533.EXE>
AMD 768 Driver
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Description:   - WHQL Certified Driver
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http://download.msi.com.tw/support/dvr_exe/POWMGMT_122S.EXE>
AMD EIDE Driver
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Microsoft Windows® 2000 Patch for AGP Applications on AMD platforms
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Date:      2002-8-20
http://download.msi.com.tw/support/dvr_exe/largePageMinimum.reg>
Award® BIOS I have 1.6 (?)
File Size:   234KB
Version:   1.82
Update date:   2003-5-12
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http://download.msi.com.tw/support/bos_exe/6501v182.exe>
*** NOT USED: OLD DATE AND WRONG CHIPSET NUMBER ***
Onboard NIC Driver
Support model    K7D Master (MS-6501)
Description
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Date    2002-8-20
http://download.msi.com.tw/support/dvr_exe/E100CE.exe>
We shall see if this fixes the multiple adapter problem. As far as the display settings problem, I don't know that the deal is. It works fine on other motherboards with the same hardware and drivers, so it must be something with the K7D, Windows, and ATI interaction.
Josh
P.S.: There is a bug with this forum software and apostrohpies. Every time you preview your post it inserts escape characters ("\") before apostrphies, and also inserts escape characters for these escape characters, so quickly you have something like "\\\\\\\'" where you want "'".

How do I connect multiple displays to a Lenovo 405

how do I connect multiple displays to a Lenovo 405 running windows 7? I tried a video card but the built in amd video port would not function with the video card plugged in.
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hi harry13,
Welcome to the Lenovo Forums.
If you're referring to the Lenovo® H405, this unit has an integrated VGA and HDMI out according to this pdf data sheet.
If you'll be using a flat panel monitor (that usualy has a VGA connector and a single link DVI D digital interface), you will need to connect 1 monitor to the VGA out and use an HDMI to single link DVI-D converter on the other monitor. You might need to scan for hardware changes under the device manager to identify the monitor that's connected to the HDMI to DVI-D converter. Note that you need to change the video setup under BIOS to IGD or the onboard graphics.
If you'll be using your discrete video adapter for the multi-monitor setup, you must change the video setup to PEG under the BIOS and the video card must have a vga or hdmi/dvi out.
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Hope this helps.
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Spaces with Multiple Displays

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I can accept that I am pushing the envelope on Spaces using both multiple displays and splitting windows from one application across Spaces, so I am not expecting this to work flawlessly (yet). However, it sure would be useful to be able to recover from this when it occurs.
By the way, as a tip I have mapped my mouse button 3 (external mouse with a scroll wheel that has a button) to show Spaces, which has been very handy for me.
One last thing: Does anyone else think it would be cool to have Spaces act more like true individual Desktops? In other words, be able to set background image per Space and maybe even have different files on each Space/Desktop? Files would be more involved since Spaces are less permanent than a real Desktop, but background images seems like an easy thing to be able to code for.

Just to be clear, you CAN run an application and split its windows across different Spaces by dragging those windows in the Spaces view. So open Firefox in Space 1, open a second FF window in Space 1, then F8 and drag the second window into Space 2 and voila. It's somewhat random what happens when you click on the application icon in the dock when you do this, but it does work.
Good point about the background being very resource-intensive. Never mind.

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