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2. Choose a person’s name from the upper drop-down menu, and

then click Add.

This is the list of account holders (Chapter 18)—or account-holder
groups, if someone has created them.

If the person who’ll be connecting across the network doesn’t yet

have an account on your machine, choose “Create a new user”
from this drop-down menu. (“Create a new user” isn’t some kind
of sci-fi breakthrough. You’re creating an account for an existing

person.)

The name appears in the list. Now your job is to work through this
list of people, specifying how much control each person has over

the file or folder you’re sharing.

3. Click a name in the list. Click the in the Permission Level

column and choose Read or Read/Write.

Read means “look but don’t touch.” This person can see what’s in
the folder (or file) and can copy it, but she can’t delete or change

the original.

Contributors (available for folders only—not files) have much
broader access. These people can add, change, or delete files in the

shared folder—but only files that they put there. Stuff placed there
by other people (owners or co-owners) appears as “look but don’t
touch” to a Contributor.

Read/Write means this person, like you, can add, change, or delete
any file in the shared folder.