File permissions between user accounts on one computer

Hi!!!
I have an iMac PowerPC G5 computer which I set with 2 accounts, one for me (the administrator) and another for some workers.
I´m having problems regarding writing and using files. I have some documents which both accounts need to use, read and save. The original files are not in the administrator account, but on the normal one. What I do when I want to read and write on a file located on the normal account is access to it going into the other user account and open it from the document folder. BUT i have to be givening permissions all the time because it lose them when I switch between both accounts
Sorry for my english, i´ll try to explain better:
1-I open a file which is in the normal account from my administrator account
2- It wont let me save anything so i have to give writing permissions
3-I switch to the normal account and wont allow me to write again, so I have to give permission again
4- Everytime I switch accounts i will have to give permission
How can i solve this?
Thanks!!
G.

Sean Dale1 wrote:
Very interesting thank you.
I wondered if it might be possible to modify files copied into such a shared folder with the aid of an AppleScript or Automator action saved as an application
nothing you can do with applescript or automator can come anywhere close to be as simple or as effective as the ACL method. folder actions only watch the top level of the folder they are attached to and plus they are extremely unreliable. what could be simpler than the method outlined above? you run two terminal commands and you are set. no scripts to run, no cron or launch daemons to make to run some periodic change of permissions scripts. file system does everything itself.
or would opening a file and then doing a simple 'Save As' to the folder do the trick?
only if you don't mind creating multiple copies of the same file any time you need to change it.
the only real problem with the ACL method is that inherited ACLs are not applied to items moved into the shared folder, only to copied or new files. this is not normally an issue except with some applications like photoshop which like to utilize temp files. when photoshop saves chages to a file it does the following. it saves the changed file to a temp file in a temporary directory, deletes the current file and then moves the temp file to where the original file was. because moving is involved this washes out the ACLs. very bad of photoshop. if you are unlucky enough to be using an app like this then there is a different method that can be used that does not have the deficiency of ACLs with respect to moved files but it requires some more prep. although once the prep is complete it works quite well. see my os x hint here
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20100202195536952
on how to do that. However, in most situations the ACL method is perfectly suitable and is much easier to set up so I recommend you go with that.

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