Mac OS X 10.4 Help

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Sharing your documents

There are several ways to share your documents with other people:

  • To share a document with people who use your computer, copy it to your Public folder (in your home folder) or the Shared folder (in the Users folder on your hard disk).
  • To share your Public folder with other Macintosh computers on your network, turn on Personal File Sharing in Sharing preferences.
  • To give someone a copy of a document, put it in the Drop Box folder in their Public folder.
  • To share a document with other Macintosh users on the Internet, copy it to the Public folder on your iDisk.
  • To share files with someone using a Windows computer, open System Preferences, click Sharing, and then select Windows Sharing.
  • To share your iDisk Public folder with anyone on the Internet, use HomePage to publish a file sharing webpage.

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