Working with same files in two accounts

Hi,
I thought I ran into a workaround for the "Read Only" irritation if a person has two accounts, that would bypass the necessity to go through "Get Info" and unlocking every file you want to have access to on both accounts. I think it involved going through Terminal and mentioned that emulating Unix made the computer assume the other account is merely part of "everyone" who shouldn't have access without specific permission. Anyway, is there a way to allow Read & Write for all my files for both accounts?
Is the Public file web-based and hence external? I don't think I want to do that.
Thanks!

The best way to share files between user accounts on the same Mac is to put them in a special ACL folder. That way, any new files added to the folder or any of its subfolders will automatically become read and write for both users. Here is how to set it up:
1) Make a new folder in /Users/Shared called "sharefolder". Locate all the files that you want to share and move them into there.
2) In System Preferences -> Accounts, click the + button to make a new account, but then select "group" from the drop-down menu. Call the group "sharing" or something similar. Add the users you want to the group.
3) Open Terminal and paste in all of this at the same time:
chmod -R +a "sharing allow delete,chown,list,search,add_file,\
addsubdirectory,delete_child,file_inherit,directoryinherit" \
/Users/Shared/sharefolder
That's it. Everything in that folder is now fully readable and writeable by both users, and any files newly created or copied to that folder or any of its subfolders will be as well.
NOTE: After setting this up, if you have existing files that you want to move in to that folder, make sure that you copy them in (hold down the option key when dragging with Finder). Simply moving them in without copying won't cause the full read permissions to be inherited properly.

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