Home sharing deleting songs from second computer

Hi,
I set up home sharing using my apple ID account on my computer and my husbands. When he transfers a song from my library, it just copies it from mine but when I transfer a song from his computer to mine, it erases it from his! How do I stop this? I can't seem to find any infromation about this. Why does it erase the songs? I thought it was only copying them.

OK, if you have your music on your iPod and the iPod is set to manage music manually and you are satisfed with your backup arrangements...
Just select the tracks you want to delete in itunes and then press the delete key. If your tracks are in the iTunes music folder you will be given the option of deleting the files from your PC.
If the tracks are not in the iTunes music folder, they will just be deleted from the library - which holds inforamtion about tracks rather than the tracks themselves. You then have to find the tracks in Windows and delete them from there.
BTW if you look in iTunes help under "deleting" you will find more information about it.

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