Hi Jody; On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 19:26 -0400, Jody McIntyre wrote: > Hi Bill, > > Pardon me for pointing out what may be obvious, but have you set the > permissions so that both users can read and write all the files and > directories involved, and have you verified that the umask causes > newly-created files to have the correct permissions? > > If you haven't, reply and I'll try and summarize what you need to do. > Your suggestion is the first one I am trying this morning. I have set up the symbolic link from user2 to user1. I have created a new group called 'evo' which has user1 and user2 as members. Before I "chgrp -Rf --preserve-root evo ./.evolution" and "chmod -Rf --preserve-root g+r+w ./.evolution" on usr1, I would like the advice you offered on using umask with future evolution files and an eyeball of my chgrp and chmod commands. My current umask for user is 0002 (u=rwx,g=rwx,o=rx) and root 0022 (u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx). I believe that should cover it. Regards Bill Fedora Core 4.