Can you limit what file people can d/l while sharing screen

Pretty darn new to iChat but man it has come in way handy. I'm trying to teach someone to do what I do for work because I will not be around, While I share my screen we've found out we can get files from it to his. Is there anyway to be able to hide file on my computer so he can d/l them or see them while in screen sharing in iChat? Hope that makes sense

Hi,
If you meant "Hide so he Can't... " then the answer is no.
Any Screen Sharing lets the Viewing End the same access as you have.
What you can do is set up a Test User Account on your Mac (System Preferences > Accounts)
This in effect give that User all their own Folders in their Home Folder.
You could put Files, docs and other things in the Public Folder of that account, that you want to "Share, from your Account, so that when you Log in as the Test User they can have access to them.
Public Folders are what other Users on a Mac can "See". They can only Look.
Unless you set up Remote Login in System Preferences > Sharing to behave differently it is also all someone logging in from outside your computer can "see" (like Windows can only see Shared folders).
Once you login as another User your regular User Account is inaccessible apart from the Shared (Public folder only by default) folders.
putting things in the Drop Box in the Test account will make copies of them to do so allowing you to keep unaltered originals.
I hope I have said that clearly enough.
9:57 PM Sunday; August 2, 2009
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