Sharing documents with 2 users on same iMac

I am trying to share selected documents (not iTunes) between 2 users with their own accounts on the same iMac.  My iMac is a late 2009 intel desktop using OS 10.8.4.
I have read over all of the literature on setting up "Users and Groups" preferences, I have setup a "Group" account for the two users.  I have then gone to "Sharing" prefs, identified the files to be shared and then identified the users to be shared and gave them Read/Write privileges.  I have made sure that the COMPUTER NAME in the heading of SHARING matches the name posted as the Full Name in Users and Groups (which is the Admin name).
No matter what I try here, nothing seems to work.
Anyone know what I am missing here.
Many thanks.

It sounds like you've put the shared files in a subfolder of one user's home folder that the other can't read. I suggest you put them in a subfolder of /Users/Shared. Even then, you're going to have problems if one user creates a new file, because the other won't be able to modify it. To get this kind of setup to work properly is much more complex.

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