Changing user folder permissions

My wife and I both have admin accounts on my computer. I want to be able to easily transfer files from my user folder to hers without running into permissions problems. For example, I may want to take a photo from my Pictures folder and drop it in her Pictures folder. I can't do that because access is blocked to everyone but her. It's irritating to have to drop the file on a neutral ground, log in to her account, and take the file and put it in her folder. I logged in as root and tried to change the permissions by giving admin group read and write privileges but it gives an error of -60002 if I try that. I can't change the permissions while not logged in as root since the option is greyed out. Any ideas? I don't care one bit about "compromising security".

Hi Xeep,
Error -60002 is "The authorization parameter is invalid".
From your account, have you first tried changing the Owner to yu, then the Group to admin, then the owner back to her?
Or better yet, try BatChMod...
http://www.macchampion.com/index.shtml

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Hi Folks.
I’ll try to be brief.
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I’ve always been a little confused since XP (or was it Vista?) by the three user folders; ‘owner’ ‘default’ and
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store where I bought the computer. I’ve tried but can’t change the name.
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Hi Eric55,
I want to suggest two things:
You yourself should use a non-admin account for daily
work. An administrator should administrate, and
should not write a letter. This would reduce risks of
malicious software doing bad things to your whole
system (since it would have your admin rights) and
you yourself doing bad things without noticing (like
deleting important files accidentically just because
you can do so without warning).
Many thanks for your very helpful reply. I can see the wisdom of what you're suggesting. So, should I just create another account, e.g., called "Eric2," that I use for routine work, leaving the "Eric" account that has admin rights alone except when needed for admin tasks?
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is a folder named "Shared" that should hold all the
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And for this a common group is
alright, but Mac OS does not do this automatically;
all files copied there must be changed manually (or
by a folder action Apple Script, if you know how to
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set.
That's what I thought I'd done with my "family" group, but that seems to have created more problems that it solved.
BTW, I would not put admin or root users in this
common group, again out of caution.
OK, makes sense.
And user folders
should belong to users, not to everyone. Just my
thinking ...
Again, what I was basically trying to accomplish was to have all the music files in the Shared folder, but at the same time make it possible for individual users to add music to the Shared folder. Maybe you have some suggestions for how to do that, and for how to revise the permissions I set up, e.g., to put them back to how they were before. If so, many thanks in advance!
--Eric

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Friend of mine bought the laptop (very strong and expensive asus - republic of gamers) with installed windows 8.1 on it, but after a few days only I bought that computer from him because he didn't need it and he didn't use it at all!
But, his name stayed in the windows. I changed all user accounts names and everything which was possible to be changed, but when i go to C/users his name is still there on folder!
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Not only this problem, there is too many problems with this windows 8.1! Too many! You definitely made the worst thing ever!
I am extremely unhappy and upset with this operative system! I,m cursing the day when i gave so much money for computer with crap called windows 8.1!!!!
Very very angry!!!
(P.S English is not my native language)

Hi,
According to your description, it seems that you have resolve that issue.
Not only this problem, there is too many problems with this windows 8.1! Too many! You definitely made the worst thing ever!
Please let us know what problem did you encounter? Please give us more detailed information in order to provide the further help.
Here is a overall guide for you to know well the Windows 8.1
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No Karen, I didn't resolve the issue.
I asked very simple question how to change something so basic like user folder name in Windows 8.1
You know: "C:/Users/"user name"
All the links you are giving to me doesn't provide any concrete answer to this question. I spent hours and hours googling and researching about this question and only solution which i found is that i need to create completely new user account and delete completely
the old one, just to be able to remove an old name of user folder! Are you kidding me?
How is possible that such a basic thing is so complicated?
Is there any way to change folder user name in any other way because i don't want to create a new user account!
Simple question, but, like always, no any concrete answers - just some empty talks, and totally useless links and SPINNING IN THE CIRCLE all the time without the CONCRETE solution.
As for part of my post which you quoted, and your request for more informations in order to provide me further help, i just gave it to you again. I want to change user folder name. What you don't understand in that question?
UPDATE:
Ok, i came back to edit this post because i have a feeling that maybe you don't understand the question and giving me this link because maybe you simply don't know that when you go to:
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I really think i explained very good now.

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I have several accounts on my MacBook and I want to keep some files private and some files shared with full permissions for everyone.
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Thanks, your answer helped me a lot. I found an even simpler method which doesn't require any extra applications.
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