Sharing files Mac to Mac

My husband and I both work from home on two iMacs, we need to share files - they are stored on his Mac and I need to open them in Dreamweaver (html editor) amend them and save them back again.
I can open them and edit them but I cannot then save them!
The permissions are set on his Mac for sharing read & write??
This in turn is creating another issue - because I can't do what seems logical above I have to copy the entire folder of files, change them as necessary & save them, then copy the entire folder back to his Mac to preserve continuity and so he can also work on them. BUT this is then somehow locking some files (not all and not necessarily the ones I've worked on) and he can't then edit them even when stored on his Mac.
Ideas to resolve the first issue ideally and an answer to why it's doing the second problem??
Thanks

Back up all data.
Select the text on the line below by dragging across it. Don't include the blank space at the end of the line. Only the text should be highlighted.
chmod -R +a "staff allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,file_inherit,directory_inherit"
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window by pressing command-V, then press the space bar.
Now switch to the Finder and and select the shared folder in question. Drag into the Terminal window. More text will be added to what you entered.
Click in the Terminal window to activate it, then press return.
The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear. You can then quit Terminal.

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