Both me and my wife use the iMac. One computer, two users. Last night I attempted to make a shared folder for our itunes music. After 6hrs, I finally went to bed without it working properly. Today another 4hrs and it's still not working properly. I have attempted the external hard drive option, scratched that idea, then today created a shared folder where I put my Itunes Library, enabled permissions and thought I had it. When she logs on, she seems to have everything I put into the library. I bought a song under her account on Itunes to see if I could see it when I logged in to my account. When I log in, I see the song I bought under her account, but about 3000 of my other songs won't open "Original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?" comes up when I click on them. Where the hell did my songs go and how come they are now working for her. I have read literally hundreds of posts in an attempt to make this work. This is ridiculous how hard Apple makes it to share a freakin library on the same computer. Please help before this new iMac gets damaged.
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iPod This should not be this difficult!! Please help!
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Apple actually makes it very easy to share your library. With fast user switching turned on, simply make sure that sharing is turned on in iTunes, both of you are logged in, and both of you have iTunes running. The other person's library shows up as a shared library in iTunes.
Baldimac...am I understanding you right? For my wife to get to my library, she would have to log me on, user switch to her account, and then she could access my music? Is there another way...she does not even have the password to my account.
BTW, I'm not saying the way I described is perfect. It's just the way that Apple designed music sharing to work.
The method you were originally trying has it's advantages, but also has quirks that you have to workaround. I've never come across instructions that seem to work right.
The method you were originally trying has it's advantages, but also has quirks that you have to workaround. I've never come across instructions that seem to work right.
Yep. I think you enable fast user switching in the Accounts panel in System Prefs. It creates a menu that lists each user and an option to switch to the login screen that you generally see at startup.