Shared File Access
mcphersonkent
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I created an account on my iMac for my wife. (Her old iMac is 10 years is being decommissioned) I put my Quicken data folder on an external direct attached hard drive. I can open the file in Quicken. When she is logged in, she cannot. I have given her user full read/write access to the drive and folder and file. Still no joy. I gave her Admin rights. Again, no luck. Quicken says she doesn't have Read/Write access. What am I missing?
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The Quicken file is actually a special type of Mac folder called a package. Because of this, it is not recommended to share a file across Mac user accounts because permissions within the package can become corrupted.
In theory, you could propagate the permissions all the way through the package using this in the Finder:
The problem is, if a file within the package changes while one user has it open, the permissions may not be right for the other user and they will lose access. In fact, it can corrupt the entire Quicken file and make it unusable.
Therefore, in this situation, it is recommended that you create a new user account on your Mac called "Quicken". Store the Quicken file there. Each of you logs into that account when you want to work on it. You can use macOS's Fast User Switching to make this less painful.Quicken Mac Subscription; Quicken Mac user since the early 90s5
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Couple other data points. 1) I can be logged into my wife's account on my iMac and use Word to create and save a file on the external drive and folder where my Quicken data file is. 2) If I copy the Quicken data file to her Documents folder, I can open the file in Quicken from there. Still can't open the file on the drive from Quicken though. Ugh.0
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The Quicken file is actually a special type of Mac folder called a package. Because of this, it is not recommended to share a file across Mac user accounts because permissions within the package can become corrupted.
In theory, you could propagate the permissions all the way through the package using this in the Finder:
The problem is, if a file within the package changes while one user has it open, the permissions may not be right for the other user and they will lose access. In fact, it can corrupt the entire Quicken file and make it unusable.
Therefore, in this situation, it is recommended that you create a new user account on your Mac called "Quicken". Store the Quicken file there. Each of you logs into that account when you want to work on it. You can use macOS's Fast User Switching to make this less painful.Quicken Mac Subscription; Quicken Mac user since the early 90s5
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