Hello fine folks of Macdom! 
My wife and I just got a used Macbook to use as our media hub. I've transferred the files we wanted on the Mac from our PC using the Migration Assistant, which of course put everything in a separate user account.
What I'd like to do at this point is set up 2 user accounts; one for me and one for my wife. We each already have separate iTunes libraries and separate apple ID/accounts, so I think this will work well in general.
As it is now, I'm using the main admin account and I'm setting up the new account that the Migration Assistant set up as my wife's account.
What I'd like to do is move files around between the two accounts so that that stuff I use shows up on my account and the stuff my wife uses shows up on her's.
I've read through ways to do this, and most seem to say to copy items to the 'shared' folder, and then copy them from there to the user account where it belongs. The only issue with this I have is that I don't want to create 2 or more copies of all these files and end up filling up the hard drive. I just want my wife's music, photos, and documents on her account, and mine on my account, with no extra stuff taking up space as middleman, as it were.
How can I do that?
Thanks a bunch for any advice you can offer!
My wife and I just got a used Macbook to use as our media hub. I've transferred the files we wanted on the Mac from our PC using the Migration Assistant, which of course put everything in a separate user account.
What I'd like to do at this point is set up 2 user accounts; one for me and one for my wife. We each already have separate iTunes libraries and separate apple ID/accounts, so I think this will work well in general.
As it is now, I'm using the main admin account and I'm setting up the new account that the Migration Assistant set up as my wife's account.
What I'd like to do is move files around between the two accounts so that that stuff I use shows up on my account and the stuff my wife uses shows up on her's.
I've read through ways to do this, and most seem to say to copy items to the 'shared' folder, and then copy them from there to the user account where it belongs. The only issue with this I have is that I don't want to create 2 or more copies of all these files and end up filling up the hard drive. I just want my wife's music, photos, and documents on her account, and mine on my account, with no extra stuff taking up space as middleman, as it were.
How can I do that?
Thanks a bunch for any advice you can offer!
