I finally created an account specifically to upvote this. I have created a shared folder in my laptop, running Ubuntu, with symbolic links from 2 users home dir

I finally created an account specifically to upvote this. I have created a shared folder in my laptop, running Ubuntu, with symbolic links from 2 users home directories (to avoid having data (mostly photos) stored twice) and manually fixing the group of new files has been a chore! Thanks!!