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Sharing folders and files

Sharing folders and files

- Probably one of the most powerful aspects of Microsoft Windows is the way you can share resources. Now, I'm going to have a lot of episodes that cover this, but to get us started, I want to create a scenario. What we have here is one computer. In fact, this is the only computer that I have at my company, and on this one computer, when we shoot a video we save it onto my e-drive. I've got one little folder called video and we put all these videos in here. And there are two groups of people who work at my company, there are reviewers and there are editors and what I want to do is set this up so that when a reviewer sits down at this computer, he can review the videos but he can't accidentally delete them or do something like that, and then, if he logs out and a editor comes in a fires up his editing software, he can go ahead and edit those videos. So what we're talking about is setting up sharing on a single system. There is no network involved here at all. This is really the best way…

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