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I may be in the minority in using multiple accounts on a mac, but I figure this may help some people.

Me and my wife shared* a MacBook for a while and I was constantly wanting to transfer files from one of our user accounts home directory to the other. I don’t think there is any way to do so with the Finder without using shared folders. Normally, I’d end up dropping to the terminal, and copying whatever file over using my *flex* super user privileges (sudo cp /Users/[username]/[file] /Users/[currentuser]/[wherever]/). Not ideal, especially if you want to be able to walk someone through the procedure over the phone or IM.

However, I recently bought a license for ExpanDrive, and realized pretty quickly, that I could use to access the files stored in another user’s profile on the same machine.

First, you’ll have to make sure you have the remote login set up in sharing (basically the ssh daemon).

Second, set up a drive using ExpanDrive using your other account’s credentials

Finally, connect to the new drive. Profit!

*”shared” meaning I hijacked it on occasion.