Hi,
I want to organize the things I use the computer for with various user accounts.
In some cases I would like to be able to access data in one account`s user directory from another user account.
I have fast user switching turned on and I am also aware that I may have to log in to any user account whose data I want to access from another account at least once after starting the Mac (or don`t I?).
Nevertheless it doesn`t work like I want it to.
It looks like I have to manually repeat sharing each sub-folder within sub-folders in the user directories. That`s very bad because i constantly generate new sub-directories to keep my data organized.
More: I just tried sharing directories from a file vault protected user directory (just to explore the possibilities). The problem: I shared the folder being logged into the file vault protected account but when I switched to the administrator account the folder was not available.
Only when I additionally shared that folder being logged in as administrator it became available to the administrator.
To be precise here:
I shared the directory being logged in as the user that owns the directory. I was asked to identify as admin which I did and then shared it for the admin.
Back in the admin account the folder`s sharing info didn`t list the admin account.
Do I really have to manually share each sub-folder within directories that are already shared? That would pretty much make the feature unusable.
What about the necessity of having to setup sharing twice from the owner`s account AND the admin account?
A File Vault-related bug?
Another thing I don`t like: Directories which are not shared can still be browsed from other user accounts (no files but folder names are visible).
Only exception: File Vault protected user accounts.
Not a big problem but I would like to switch this off if possible.
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