Share calendar between users on the SAME mac

How can I share a single calendar (and address book) between users on the SAME mac? Thanks.

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    Dear All,
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    Say, I've downloaded some pics from my camera and would like to transfer to her login account.
    Can I do it on the desktop level or can I use iPhoto to do this? I'd like to know how to do bothways, without having to duplicate the files(ie saving 2 copies of the same file on the computer)
    Isn' there a 'New' feature on iPhoto / Aperture saying that it uses the same 'Unified' library or something ?
    Can this feature help? but how to activate?
    Pls help.
    Thanks

    Macs have a folder called "Public" for this purpose.  See this from Finder's help:
    Share files with others using a drop box
    To give a copy of a file to another user, you can copy the file to the person’s Drop Box.
    HidePut a file in the Drop Box of another user on your Mac
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    Click the desktop to make sure you’re in the Finder, and then choose Go > Computer.
    Double-click the icon for your computer’s internal disk (usually named Macintosh HD) to open its folder.
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    Open the user’s Public folder, and then drag the file to the Drop Box. To keep a copy of the file for your own use, hold down the Option key while you drag.
    Even though you can put items in another user’s Drop Box, you can’t open any Drop Box except your own.

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  • Move an iTunes library between users on the same mac

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    I've read through all the photo sharing posts, and have not found an answer to this question:
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    The Photo Sharing methods described in many other messages here would not be ideal, because the users with the original photos don't want to have to be logged in or have iPhoto open while others are on the computer. Also, they don't want their entire library to be looked through, just certain photos that they choose to export. The "Shared" folder seems like the answer to this, but so far it's been a huge letdown.
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    Hi Scott,
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  • How do I move organized photos from dropbox to iPhoto and share with another user on the same mac?

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    2.  How does one share all of the folders with another user on the same Ipad so they can view folders, and add pictures to the folders if they like?
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    1.  How does one mirror their file organization on the Ipad?
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    On the same iPad?  Do you mean on the same mac?
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    If both of you want to keep separate iPhoto libraries but share the photos, you could share selected albums as Shared PhotoStreams and invite each other to browse them. This would require iOS 7. Do you have iOS 7 on your iPad?  Each Shared Photo Stream will be shown as a separate album on your iPad .
         iCloud: Using and troubleshooting Shared Photo Streams
    Regards
    Léonie

  • How do I share files between users on the same machine?

    I tried using /Users/shared to share files between myself (Admin user) and another user on the machine (Standard user). Whenever I put a file or a folder into said directory permissions are 755 for directories and 644 for files, my umask is 0022. The files and directories belong to my user and the group staff. This means I can read and write and others can read. If I do the same using the other users account. Permissions are 700 and 600 respectively. (Owner is the other user and group is staff.) Strangely the other users umask is 0022, too.
    The result is, that all directories and files I create with my account (Admin user) are readable to every other user on the machine, whereas all directories and files the other user (Standard user) creates are not readable for anyone else. I can easily rectify this using the Terminal and chmod and/or chown, but it is a pain having to do this, since I also need to forcefully restart the Finder App for it to notice the changed permissions.
    Ideally I'd like all directories in /Users/Shared to have permissions 777 and all files 666 no matter which user created, copied or moved them to said location. I think this could possibly be done using applescript and shellscripting and the folder action hook. So far my attempts to find such a script on the net or/and write it myself have failed. I'd be grateful for any hints how I:
    a) write and setup such a script
    b) accomplish what I try to do (share files and folders on the same machine) in another possibly more Mac way
    Kind regards
    David

    The following AppleScript will recursively descend the directory tree and change the items to your modes:
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    title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
    on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
    repeat with some_item in these_items
    ProcessStuff from some_item
    end repeat
    end adding folder items to
    to ProcessStuff from SomeItem
    processes items contained in SomeItem, recursively descending the directory tree
    parameters - SomeItem [mixed]: an item containing the items to process
    returns nothing
    set SomeItem to SomeItem as text
    set FileInfo to (info for SomeItem as alias)
    if (folder of FileInfo) and not (package folder of FileInfo) then -- a folder (not a package)
    do shell script "chmod 666 " & quoted form of POSIX path of SomeItem
    -- do shell script "chown root:staff " & quoted form of POSIX path of SomeItem user name "me" password "mypassword" with administrator privileges
    try -- to get items in the folder
    tell application "Finder" to set SubFolder to (items of folder SomeItem)
    on error
    return {}
    end try
    repeat with SubItem in SubFolder -- process the sub items
    ProcessStuff from SubItem
    end repeat
    else -- a file
    do shell script "chmod 777 " & quoted form of POSIX path of SomeItem
    -- do shell script "chown root:staff " & quoted form of POSIX path of SomeItem user name "me" password "mypassword" with administrator privileges
    end if
    return
    end ProcessStuff
    </pre>
    You shouldn't need to change the ownership, so I commented out the chown shell script since this would need to be run as a super user. You can run a shell script with administrator privileges, but in order to be used by a standard user you will need to provide the appropriate user name and password in the script, which might not be a good idea - note that the folder action script will need to be attached in all accounts that you want to change the permissions, which means that it would need to be accessible to those accounts.

  • How do I share files between users on the same Macbook pro?

    I have created different users on my new Macbookpro, but I can't seem to share files between two users. Help how do I share files between users on one laptop? eg. a pdf file that I want to grab from my user x and use it on user y, thanks.  By the way I have already tries going into system preferences, sharing folder, then turning on file sharing and that didnt work. thanks

    From the Help Menu using the search criteria Drop Box

  • How do I share photos in iPhoto between users on the same mac

    When one user account on my iMac takes photos with their iPhone they download to their iPhoto. I want them to be added to my iPhoto user account also and vice versa.

    An iPhone can only stream one "my Photo Stream", and this is bound to one iCloud account, the account that is used  for the iPhone.
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  • How do I Share ical between users on the same computer

    I share my computer with my wife and we each have our seperate logings. We'd like to be able to share our diary on the computer so we can keep track of each other. Is this possible?
    I use Tiger and ical 2.0.3
    Peter

    Mac OS X by design keeps documents and settings owned by one user private from and inaccessible to any other user on the system. This is normal and has always been the case with Mac OS X.
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    Regards.

  • How do I share files between users on the same computer?

    My wife has a MacBook, and I just bought my first iMac.  When I booted it for the first time, it asked me if I wanted to copy preferences from her computer.  I thought that was a great idea.  It took 8 hours to copy everything (this I totally did not expect, but couldn't interrupt), but when it was done, I had all of my fiiles and applications and everything, so that's cool.  Now the problem is the separate user accounts.  I had always used her account on her computer while mine sat idle, for the most part.  Now I want to use my account on my computer but cannot find *any* of my files, unless I switch users and view them on *her* account.  Even when I "search my entire computer" for a file, the Mac acts like the files don't exist.  I turned on file sharing in the sys pref, but that didn't seem to help.  Any ideas?

    Mac OS X by design keeps documents and settings owned by one user private from and inaccessible to any other user on the system. This is normal and has always been the case with Mac OS X.
    If you want documents accessible from both accounts, the easiest way to accomplish it is to put those documents in the Users/Shared folder. If you want to move your documents from your wife's account to yours, log into her account, move the documents to the Shared folder, then log into your own account and move the documents from the Shared folder to your own Documents folder.
    Regards.

  • Sharing iPhoto Library between users on the same Mac

    I recently switched to using iPhoto ('11) instead of Picasa on our iMac.  My wife and use the iMac but with each our own accounts.  When I first set it up, I put the library in our Shared folder on the Mac with the proper permissions, and both of us could access the library without any problems (as long as one of us remembered to quit iPhoto when we were done so the other can access the library).  But now, my wife no longer can open the library.  But not only that -- when launching iPhoto from her account, a warning display pops up saying the library cannot be accessed because it is locked or do not have permission to open.  When you click "OK," iPhoto simply quits.  No option to select a new library or create a new one.
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    How can I share purchased apps between 2 diff users on the same mac?

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  • How can I share a folder between two users on the same mac?

    Hi all,
    I would like to share a folder between multiple users on the same macbook without having to transfer the folder to the Public/Shared folder.
    Is there not a way, using the the folders shared permissions, to allow shared folders from one user to be visible and usable by another user on the same mac without having to move the folder to a designated shared location?
    Regards,
    Caleb

    jrwood116 wrote:
    Thanks, but do you have to do that every time you share a folder?
    No, you just need to do it once and that's it. Anything that is in the Shared folder is accessible by all user accounts within the same Mac.
    jrwood116 wrote:
    I've read numerous 'how to share a folder' blogs and they just say it's as simple as clicking 'share' and allowing specific users to access it...none have mentioned this (not saying your advice is wrong at all, just don't get why no-one else has mentioned what appears to be a key step!)
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  • Share a library between two users on the same mac?

    It is possible to share a library between two users on the same mac?

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