Working with multiple user accounts on the same folio/article

Hi,
i have the follwing issue:
- User A owns the folio (the one that publsihes it), the folio is shared with user B and C
- User B is the graphics designer. He does the Artwork
- Usee C should do the textutal corrections
Problem:
- User C cannot access the Articles User B has created
Question: What is the right solution for this kind of problem? Two (or more) people should be able to work on an article using their personal account. The only solution I see at the moment is to create a specific "designer-account" per folio project that all these people share.
Are there any other options
cheers
Thomas

Thanks for the quick responses.
The sharing of the data is not the problem, in fact, cloud storage can be one of the solutions. But regardless, if people work on different locations or in the same intranet, it can always happen, that designer B goes on holiday and there needs to be done a change on one of the articles inside the folio that B has been working on. It is a pitty, that Designer C cannot take over and do the changes without either having to have user/password of B or "destroying" the folio settings, removing the article completely and re-entering it drom scratch (with all correct settings, namings etc) what makes B having to do the same, as soon as he comes back. This might also have to do with the absolute path references used in folios instead of logical ones (every user can set as "folioroot" on his computer) what also would make the dropbox (or adobe cloud) approach work, as everybody would share the same subfile structure and could "jumpstart" working on the folio.
Nevertheless, thanks for the answeres, things work as they do. I was just wondering if I am doing something wrong.
We will now create shared working users per project, so everybody involved in the project will use that user.
Thomas

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