Shared folder permissions in Catalina
My wife and I both have user logins on the iMac and to facilitate shared work, we use the Shared folder in the Users directory. Up until recently we've never had an issue, although I'm not sure thinking back that we've ever actually tried this!
I have created a file in the Shared folder with the textedit app. I can update this file with no problem. Using my wife's user id, she can open the file but if she makes any changes to it, she can't save it as she doesn't have permission. Checking permission of the file using Get Info I see:
Katherine - Read & Write
andrew johnson - Read & Write
wheel - Read only
everyone - Read & Write.
This isn't just with a simple rtf file created with textedit, it happens with any file, e.g. an Excel file, stored in that folder. My expectation is that the file permissions noted above should allow both of us to edit that file.
It is the same vice-versa as well: if she creates a file she can update it but I can only read it irrespective of permissions.
Has Catalina introduced some behind the scenes security setting that prevents users changing documents in that folder when they are not the owner?
Anyone have any other ideas to fix this?
Thanks
Andrew
