Is it possible to use my music files in both my girlfriend's and my separate Itunes libraries through our seperate user accounts?? I want to import my music into her library with out copying the files onto my hard drive a second time....
Is it possible to use my music files in both my girlfriend's and my Itunes library's through our seperate user account? I want to import my music into her library without copying to my hard drive a second time.....
Would any of these help you?:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/inside-itunes/2011/05/two-ways-to-share-media-librar ies-through-itunes.html
http://www.apple.com/itunes/inside-itunes/2011/01/keeping-multiple-itunes-librar ies-on-a-single-computerif-you-share-your-computer-with-others-and-you.html
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