Sharing apps between 2 user accounts

I have set up my iMac with 2 user accounts (one for me as the administrator and one for my wife). We have downloaded a check book program called Moneydance. I want my wife to be able to access it from her account even though I installed it on my account. I asked the guy at the Apple store and he told me to put it in the "Public" folder. I did that and it didn't work. I even tried it with a simple word document. No luck. Any ideas?

scottso mcghee wrote:
I want my wife to be able to access it from her account even though I installed it on my account.
Technically, you don't install applications "on" an account. You install them into a folder or other file system location & the access controls for that location determine who can use it. In the default configuration, everybody has access to the root level Applications folder, so this is where you normally install apps that all accounts can use.
Since by default most of the locations in your account's home folder are not accessible to other accounts, any apps installed into any of those locations would normally be accessible only to to your account. You can grant other accounts access to items in locations in your home folder, but you must remember that unless they have at least read access to all the folders that enclose the items, they can't see them to access them.
Because this can get complicated, unless you have some reason to allow application access only to certain other accounts, just installing the app in question to the root Applications folder is the simplest solution.

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