Dear TidBITS users,
I want to be able to give to my wife access to my Quicken-2017 File just in case I am either dead or incapacitated. (Not planning on that happening soon, but had a friend just go thru this and he did not prepare his wife and now, life is agony………)
She has her own account on the 2023-MBPro running Sequoia 15.7.3 that I routinely use.
She also has her own 2020 MB Air and her own Apple account if any of this helps resolve this issue.
She is not really computer savvy though she is making a great effort to become more so.
Using Carbon Copy Cloner, I nightly back up some documents that she will need in case the worst thing happens to a “Document ƒ” located with the Shared ƒ within the Users ƒ.
I then set upped in her account a symbolic link to the Document ƒ that is in that Shared folder.
If I go into her account, click on the symbolic link, the CCC cloned document ƒ opens and there is the quicken file.
When I double click on the Quicken file, it will not open because it says she does not permission.
I have tried all the usual tricks.
In my account, I have added her user to allow for read /write access.
I have added her the folder that the quicken file to allow her account t read/write.
Both of those have failed to address the opening issue.
This is what popping up:
“Quicken cannot write to your data file.”
“You do not have permission to write to the file. Change your allowed permissions to read/write for the data file, then try to open it again. NOTE: You may need administrator privileges in order to change the access permissions for this file.”
Any clue what I am doing wrong?
Or, is there some other way that I can share this particular file with her.
For the record, if the file is a pdf, text, rich formatted text, jpeg, png, and even a compressed file that is in that same shared ƒ, her account can open it.
Just NOT the quicken file.
Suggestions WARMLY received.
Lee