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Stop iTunes from saving to default Library location
Authored by: escowles on Jul 20, '04 10:30:53AM

The solution I have settled on is to have the entire iTunes folder reside on the shared disk, and replace the iTunes folder on each machine with an alias to the version on the shared disk.

This means that everything in the database is shared -- new songs, titles, ratings, playlists, etc. (which might not be what you want). But it definitely fixes the synchronization issues.

One proviso: only one user can run iTunes at a time (this works for me b/c my wife only uses iTunes at home to sync her iPod), and every user must be able to write to the iTunes Library file and the iTunes directory (to create a temp file). I ran into some permissions problems with this, so I made a shell script to fix the permissions and launch iTunes.

-Esme



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