Q re sharing documents folder when dual booting XP/Vista

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Hi

I'm currently running XP Pro.

I've moved the location of "My Documents" to its own partition for easier
backup etc. I have set this folder to keep private and I logon to XP with a
password.

I plan to install Vista and dual boot to XP for any applications that don't
like Vista.

I'd like to share the "My Documents" partition so I can access my files from
either OS but as I currently have this password protected and made private I
foresee this might be a problem.

Would I need to remove the "make Private" option and enable sharing under XP
so that my Vista apps can access it?

Or is there another way?

Thanks very much for any info and your time.

Ian


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