How do I share programs between users on my MacBook Pro.

How do I share programs between users on my MacBook Pro. I downloaded mine craft under my user name and I just made my son a new user on the computer but I can't figure out how to put mine craft on his desktop

Try going to system preferences, then go to users and groups- find the option to allow sharing among users
I hope this solved your problem(: btw- I love minecraft!!!

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At the moment I tend to use the iMac as the master computer, its the one I put new music on, new photos, etc. The Macbook I use when not at home but it obviously does not have anywhere near as much music or photos on it. It's annoying as I can't synch my iPhone with the Macbook without losing files that are on the iMac.
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J

I use iTunes Match ($25/year – not too expensive) and iCloud Photo Library for this. I sync my phone with the desktop computer, but I don't store all my music and photos on the phone because there's not anywhere near enough capacity.
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I'm sure there is an easy answer to this and as a proud five year Apple user, I'm kinda embarrassed to ask. But now that I am sharing a computer with new fiance, I need to know!
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Hi Justinece, I've solved the problem in this way:
In my wife user profile I've set in itunes settings/advanced the path to my music library: /Users/"MY NAME"/Music/iTunes/Itunes media.
Than, from my wife profile using my administrator user and password I've set the "read/write" privileges on the above mentioned folder.
Finally I've added the folder in my wife's library taking care to not duplicate it ( leave blank the flag in itunes setting/advanced).
I really don't understand what's the use of home sharing...

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<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px; height: 340px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #FFDDFF;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
repeat with some_item in these_items
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end repeat
end adding folder items to
to ProcessStuff from SomeItem
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returns nothing
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on error
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return
end ProcessStuff
</pre>
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