I'd like to have a new desktop on my Mac for PS and LR

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June 4, 2017
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As Photoshop has different workspaces I'd like to have a new desktop on my computer just for Photoshop and Lightroom. My regular desktop is so cluttered and would like to have a clean slate using a new user. I tried this but the software treated this as a new computer. How do I get around this without uninstalling from my main user account?

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D Fosse

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Here's my desktop BTW. No reason to have anything at all there:

rjgajsekAuthor

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By my reckoning from all the desktops I've seen, online and real life, you are the exception. I put things on my desktop because it's handy, and i don't have to go through the file structure to find what I need. It's like typing the URL directly instead of typing it into Google search. Less steps.

D Fosse

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rjgajsek wrote
By my reckoning from all the desktops I've seen, online and real life, you are the exception. I put things on my desktop because it's handy, and i don't have to go through the file structure to find what I need. It's like typing the URL directly instead of typing it into Google search. Less steps.

Yeah, but the thing is, I have more than 4TB of data, and I need to be able to access all of it quickly. I need to have everything in its proper and logical place in the folder tree, or I lose my way. I just can't have any kind of stray files anywhere.

I can still find anything inside 30 seconds. Although by now the archive has grown to such sizes that I've started planning a searchable database, before it goes over my head. This is work, not private BTW.