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iPhoto? iTunes?
yes, you can share itunes and iphoto this way if you want to. but there is no need for this hint with iphoto 09 sharing. it can take care of different ownership issues itself. just put the iphoto library in a folder accessible by several users like /users/shared and point their iphoto libraries to that location. to do that start iphoto while holding option. it will then let you choose a library. just keep in mind that if you do it this way two users should not be accessing iphoto at the same time. one user at a time only. as for itunes, yes, you can use this hint but you can also use the ACL method mentioned in the hint. that's easier to implement and will work just as well for itunes. this hint is really just for situations where ACLs are not suitable for some reason, like sharing photoshop projects. incredibly, even the latest version of photoshop doesn't deal with ACLs correctly and strips off ACLs when you save a file. so the ACL method won't work there but this one will.
iPhoto? iTunes?
That's how I thought (in theory) iPhoto9 resolved this long standing issue. Here's the dilemma I still had... with my iPhoto Library in /users/shared/ and then selecting it with iPhoto in BOTH accounts as the default library, it SEEMS to be fine. But I cannot edit a photo that was imported by the other account in a given account. User1 can import photos, edit, do whatever. User2 can then SEE those photos and use them.. but NOT crop or otherwise modify them. The thumbnail that was created on import is unmodifiable because of ownership issues apparently. Same the other way around with photos that User2 imports -- User1 can see but not edit. So to edit a file you need to be in the account which imported it from the camera.
iPhoto? iTunes?
Another approach (there's an apple technical note to this effect, btw) is to create a sparse disk image without permissions, and add it to the each user's startup items. Move the iPhoto library to this virtual disk, and you've got effectively the same result, but with your internal drive being used. ---
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iPhoto? iTunes?
To me the point of the /users/shared folder is a mystery given that it doesn't really enable sharing of files outside of 'read only'. Seems practically impossible for a multi-user mac to share photos or tunes, which I would THINK would be a very common need. My only solution so far is to host the iPhoto (and iTunes --same issue with modifying mp3 tags) libraries on an EXTERNAL drive set to ignore permissions. Which defeated my purpose of buying a new iMac with a 2TB internal drive.That is one good reason to partition the drive. All my macs have at least one other partition besides the system partition in the internal drive. You could easily partition the 2TB drive in such a way as to have, say, a MEDIA partition, ignoring permissions, where the iTunes and iPhoto (and, say, EyeTV...) libraries could reside and be shared. The usual restriction of having one user at a time running of these applications still applies, but this is by far the easiest way to do it. ---
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