Viewing shared photo's

Hi guys. The mrs & i have seperate acnts on our Mac. When we download photo's to it, we place them in a shared folder so we can see each others. After an OS update, we can no longer see each others photo's! We get the "you don't have permission to view" message.
What can we do to resolve this issue?
Cheers in advance.

Please update your profile. Makes troubleshooting easier.
You are in the Mavericks community, not the Mac Pro forum, unless someone has moved your post.
Two separate libraries? Do a Get Info (command - I) on the library/libraries and change the permissions to everyone read/write. You need to unlock the Get Info box. If it is 2 libraries, you'll need to do it on both using the appropriate account passwords.

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