Frustration With File Sharing

As far as I know, I have done everything called for in the tutorial "How to Share Files and Folders Over a Network in Windows 10". The one thing I cannot do is transfer a file from my computer to my wife's computer. I can open Network in File Manager, I can see the folder on her computer that I have set to share with everyone. Transferring a file to there is the one thing that so far I have failed to accomplish.

Apparently, "everyone" excludes me. This process was simple not too long ago, but at least for me, is anything other than simple. I don't even know where to begin to see what setting or settings I need to change, or perhaps I'm not even trying to transfer correctly.

Perhaps the worst part of this for me is doing a search for instructions outside of this site; there are lots of files about transferring over networks, and not a single one of them appears to even provide correct instructions.

Edit: It just occurred to me that I had not tried copying a file from the wife's computer to mine, which worked just as I hoped it would. I then checked her Documents folder, which was not marked as shared, even though I remember doing that.

I marked it as to be shared with "everyone", surrendered the machine to it's primary user so that she could continue grading papers, and returned to my machine. To my dismay, I still get "You need permission to perform this action" when I try to copy from my computer to hers. This ought to give someone at least a hint as to what to tell me to do that I either have not done or did improperly even after setting her Documents folder to be shared.

In my haste to give back the computer, I did not look at her folder to be certain that it is now shared, but I did see the entry for "everyone", so I suspect that it now is in fact shared.

What folder exactley have you shared if its in a user profile it has specific NTFS permissions which will stop you writing to the folder

Samuria said:

What folder exactley have you shared if its in a user profile it has specific NTFS permissions which will stop you writing to the folder

Interesting question which I cannot check on now. I do know that it was listed as being on her computer a long time ago and worked then. I will look at it some time tomorrow when PJ is not using it, perhaps around 0500/0600 local, and post another reply.

A while later: I was able to take a look, and found that the Documents folder, which is marked to share, is found in C:\Users\John; "John" as this used to be my computer. In C;\ there is an empty Documents folder.

Again, the folder in Users\John used to work. I make no pretensions about knowing why that was so and is not now. I await your further advice, obviously.