Itunes file sharing same IMAC?

September 16, 2009 11:44 PM

Want to share my entire itunes library with another user on the same IMAC I think we used to share them all, but now not... I do almost all of the uploading of files but she cant see these When i go into system preferences>file sharing is on and pubic folders should share everything. Can someone help point me to the likely source of this problem: I suspect multiple libraries got created somehow: can these be merged?
posted by dougiedd to computers & internet (7 comments total)

Apple-Support-Discussions: All Users Sharing iTunes
posted by plokent at 12:26 AM on September 17

File Sharing in System Preferences is not necessary or related to what you're doing: that's for sharing your Mac's data on the network.

You need to keep everything inside the Shared folder (/Users/Shared) which is inside no user's home directory and so tied to no certain user. Then you need to log in as each user and configure their iTunes to use that directory.

Here's one of many guides to how to do this.
posted by rokusan at 1:01 AM on September 17 [1 favorite]

well i followed those instructions BUT for the other account when itunes is opened now their is NO music at all.
Cant figure out what went wrong ...

plokent: that link is dead
posted by dougiedd at 1:33 AM on September 17

Apple-Support-iTunes: All Users Sharing iTunes
posted by plokent at 1:58 AM on September 17

iTunes: How to share music between different accounts on the same computer.
posted by hariya at 1:59 AM on September 17

Thanks to everyone: i got it; found out i had been moving another file not the newest one
posted by dougiedd at 2:35 PM on September 17

Apple says this: "Do not move the iTunes folder, the iTunes 4 Music Library file or the iTunes Library.xml file"
the others seem to suggest doing exactly that! Why the huge discrepancy????
posted by dougiedd at 9:01 PM on September 17