Can I have the same iTunes and iPhoto on different users?

I have 2 user accounts on my Laptop. Mine is the main one with all the music on iTunes and the photos on iPhoto. I was wondering if there is anyway, I can add these photos and music to the other user on my laptop.
It is a macbook running on - Version 10.8.2 and a 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Many thanks for any help.
Ollivia

Yes-
To do this you need to get an external Hard-drive with enough storage space to hold your entire iTunes/iPhoto library. Then go to Finder and open your home folder, then locate music and find the iTunes folder.
From here copy the folder onto you external drive. Then, locate the itunes folder in the other user, and replace the iTunes folder on your external drive with the folder in the music folder. Do the same with the iPhoto library. Then, you should have the same iTunes library and iPhoto library on both. You could then delete the itunes folder off of the external drive and use it for time-machine if you wanted.
Hope this helps.

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