OSX Mavericks Moved Home Folders Permission Problems

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Hi all, it's been a little while since I posted, but I would really appreciate a little help with this issue.

I have recently purchased myself a 27" iMac for my photography and have since acquired an SSD to boot from and run my apps. Having been a custom build PC fanatic for years, I simply could no longer put up with a 7200 mechanical drive again.

My issue is this.

Since having moved my wife's and I's home folder to an alternative drive, other than the SSD boot drive, the permissions seem to have gone wrong.

Basically, I have 3 accounts on the iMac, Me (peter) standard user, My wife (dimitra) standard user and the admin account (peter xxxxx admin). The admin account home directory resides on the boot drive and the other two are in a User folder on the internal HDD supplied with the iMac. When either standard user logs in they have read only rights into each others accounts. I want the permissions on the accounts to be back to how they were on the internal HDD.

I hope this makes sense. Help would be greatly appreciated.:confused:
 
My advise on this having had this setup for a few years is... don't bother.

Far too much hassle!!!

Keep all user folders on the SSD, keep large, other files on the main disk. If required you can set read only permissions but I don't think that would be necessary!?
 
I have put everything back to how it was with Time Machine. I will be keeping my home folder on the SSD now. I never had this problem with Windows machines. Hey ho, I do like the mac though. Great for my photography and Adobe CC membership.

I have relocated the iTunes media folders from both accounts to an alternative drive. That saved me 200GB alone. Happy days. Thanks for the replies though guys.
 
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