OSX Mavericks Moved Home Folders Permission Problems

Question

Hi all, this is my first post and I would really appreciate a little help with this issue. 
I have recently purchased myself a 27" iMac for my photography and have since acquired an SSD to boot from and run my apps.  Having been a custom build PC fanatic for years, I simply could no longer put up with a 7200rpm mechanical drive again.
My issue is this.
Since having moved my wife's and I's home folder to an alternative drive, other than the SSD boot drive, the permissions seem to have gone wrong.
Basically, I have 3 accounts on the iMac, Me (peter) standard user, My wife (dimitra) standard user and the admin account (peter xxxxx admin).  The admin account home directory resides on the boot drive and the other two are in a User folder on the internal HDD supplied with the iMac.  When either standard user logs in they have read only rights into each others accounts.  I want the permissions on the accounts to be back to how they were on the internal HDD.  ie when my wife and i logon in we can't see into each others home folders.
I hope this makes sense.  Help would be greatly appreciated.:confused:

Answer 1

To make sure I'm understanding correctly, you both want read/write access to each others user files from within your user?
If that's the case, the easiest way to do it would be:
In User Peter (standard), open finder, right click (or control+click if you don't have right click enabled) on your home folder and choose "Get Info" then click the lock in the bottom right hand side of this screen. This will ask for your password, put it in. You should see a section at the bottom entitled, "sharing and permissions." You may need to click the triangle to the left of that to reveal the box beneath it. You now have 2 options here.
1) If you two are the only users of this machine and you don't intend to add anyone else, you can change the "everyone" permissions to "Read & Write." Once this is selected, click the cogwheel in the lower left and choose "apply to enclosed items." This will give every user account on the machine read & write access to that home folder and everything in it. Apply the same steps with user Dimitra (standard).
2) If you intend to add more user accounts that you don't want to have access to these files:
Still go through the right click -> get info -> unlock padlock, but instead of changing "everyone", click the "+" button in the lower left, and choose the other user (i.e. Peter will setup Dimitra and vice versa). Then, when that user appears in the list, give them read & write access and apply to enclosed items.
If giving access to another user is not what you intend to do, please help by clarifying your intent.
Regards,
Gnomish8
Edit: Reread your initial post, and it sounds like you're trying to remove read/write permissions. Follow the same steps above, except instead of choosing "read & write" for their user, choose "No access" and apply to enclosed items.