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Share one Address Book among multiple users
Authored by: TvE on Dec 05, '04 03:54:40AM

"…it seemed as though "Address Book" would reset the ownership and permissions of the data files each time it was run…"

Well - that's exactly what Disk Utility's "Repair Persmission" task is supposed to do so when you "Repair Permissions" you could expect to loose those changes anyways.
It repairs the permissions that somehow has changed, obviously it does not matter if that change occured as an error or as a "smart" idea from the user ;-)

I *think* you should be able to get it to work by moving the address book file to a new location (EG to /Users/Shared) and then create the symlinks/aliases - no need for a new partition!



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Share one Address Book among multiple users
Authored by: j-beda on Dec 06, '04 12:41:26PM
I *think* you should be able to get it to work by moving the address book file to a new location (EG to /Users/Shared) and then create the symlinks/aliases - no need for a new partition!

For me at least, the symlink/aliases resulted in files that reverted to the old premissions/ownerships (I think that AddressBook creates new files each time, and does not inherit the old files' permissions). The new partition with "Ignore Permissions" would overcome this "feature".

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