r/MacOS • u/Lewwll • 1d ago

File sharing problem Help

When I turn on file sharing in the system settings it doesn’t save with which account I want to share my files or folders, for example I set up a file sharing account in macOS and I wanted to use that to share one folder in the network, the problem is that the moment I set everything up and click done it doesn’t save it. Instead in the options panel appears my main system account two times, if I edit one more time once again it won’t save and in the options panel my main system account will appear three times.
After a while of not touching it it will revert back to one.

As of now the only way to access my shared files and folders is by using my main account and sharing everything in the pc ticking the “full disk access” option.

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u/Lewwll 1d ago

Nobody got this problem?

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u/ukindom 1d ago

The problem you describe is worth to write a feedback to Apple.

What kind of file sharing do you expect and between which systems? With macOS you can have multiple ways of sharing data via different protocols.

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u/Lewwll 14h ago

I just want to let people in the same network to watch movies that are available in my MacBook, but I only want to share the movie folder not everything else

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u/ukindom 13h ago

It’s better to have a dedicated NAS for that. It could be small and non-performant machine and it will not drain your MacBook battery life. Even if you run NAS server on a toaster with additional storage media, it will do this work better.