Moving media to NAS but two libraries on computer

I'm using iTunes for Windows and until recently stored my media on the hard drive in the computer. We have two logins for the PC, and each user has their own iTunes library - some library items pointing to the same media, others unique to each library.
i have bought a NAS drive and for the first user I have changed in preferences the folder where music is stored to the NAS drive and checked the keep music organised button. This successfully copied the music over to the NAS drive, but of course only the music in the first users library.
if I now login as the second user, what will happen if I change the folder to the NAS drive again. Will I get a load of duplicates in my new NAS drive music folders for music which we both had in our libraries?
what is the best solution for me?!

jmf74 wrote:
if I now login as the second user, what will happen if I change the folder to the NAS drive again. Will I get a load of duplicates in my new NAS drive music folders for music which we both had in our libraries?
Yes.
what is the best solution for me?!
I don't know about best, but a possible solution is my script ConsolidateByMoving. You would change the media folder, but decline the invitation to consolidate files, then use the script to do it.
If you have iOS devices note that recent versions of iTunes have trouble with updating apps when the media folder is accessed via a UNC path instead of a mapped drive letter.
tt2

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