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Share an iTunes library among multiple users (revisited)
Authored by: rhowell on Feb 16, '04 12:50:17PM

Anybody that's ready to do a clean install might want to consider designating a separate partition for all of the shared iTunes music and iPhoto pictures. I called mine "media". Then "Get Info" on the media partition and check "Ignore ownership on this volume". Then the only necessary step from this original hint is to create aliases from the respective Music and Pictures (for iPhoto) folders in each user's directory. No scripts, no permission changes, etc. Anyone can add/delete/modify anything on this volume, as the system will show everything as being owned by them.

This won't take care of the issue of multiple iTunes running at the same time. For that the script is needed.



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