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Easy to follow tutorial on enabling and disabling file sharing on Mac OS. Want to share files among other users on your Mac and network? Learn how to turn file sharing on on Macbook and Mac now!

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Steps:

- Start by clicking the ‘Apple logo’ in the top left corner.

- Choose ‘system preferences’ from the menu that appears.

- In system preferences, choose ‘sharing’.

- In the left sidebar menu check the checkbox to the left of ‘file sharing’.

- Other users can now access your screen through the SMB IP that is displayed here.

- Under ‘shared folders’ you can see a list of the folders that can be accessed by other users.

- Under ‘users’ you can see which users have access to the folder selected.

- You can add folders to the shared folders by clicking the plus icon and then choosing the folder you wish to add to shared folders.

- You can also create a new folder here.

- You can remove shared folders by selecting the folder and clicking the minus icon.

- Click ‘ok’ on the popup.

- To change which users have access to a folder, select the folder and then click the plus icon under users on the right.

- Select the user that you would like to allow access to that folder and then click ‘select’.
To the right of a user, you can choose what access they will have to a folder, you can select ‘read only’, ‘write only’, ‘read and write’, or ‘no access’.

- You can also remove a user’s access to a file by selecting the file on the left, then selecting the user on the right, and then clicking the minus icon below the list of users.

- You can turn off file sharing by unchecking the checkbox to the left of ‘file sharing’ in the left sidebar menu.