Home sharing icon vanishes
I have two pc computers, both running the most recent edition of itunes. I have turned home sharing off and on several times on each, and closed then opened them as well. When I go to the screen to initiate home sharing, when I put in the password I can see the house icon, but it vanishes. Home sharing is still on according to the drop down. Why can't I see it?
Hi jkoerner,
If you are having an issue with Home Sharing being unavailable, you may want to troubleshoot using the steps in this article -
Troubleshooting Home Sharing
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L
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Wannabee;
Don't give up too soon.
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I do this but only by network not direct hookup.
If you are plugging the HD into one or the other I may have a solution for you.
I have all my photos in folders organized the way I want them.
Then I set iPhoto to NOT import the files when I add them.
Preferences > Advanced > make sure the selection of "Importing: Copy items to the iPhoto Library" is not selected.
That way the photos (files) will stay where you put them and the data in iPhoto will still organize and do it's thing on them.
And if you modify a photo with say Photoshop the new file seems to automatically update in the preview of iPhoto.
Works great for me.
Here is what I have been doing...
1. When I got my MAC, I copied all of my pictures from my PC onto a portable HD (WD passport).
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3. I added new photos only to the passport HD and edited them in iPhoto.
What I was _planning / hoping_ to do is move those photos back to the PC for use in other applcations. But apparently the editted photos aren't on the HD anyway, but on the MAC (in the iPhoto library.)
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(Also, initially I did copy some photos into iPhoto and apparently having a both managed AND a referenced set of files is DOUBLY bad!)
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Welcome to the Apple community.
There is no homesharing icon in iTunes, instead you set up homesharing from the homesharing option in the advanced menu of iTunes. -
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I log into home sharing on my mac and my windows pc and then when I click done the home sharing symbol goes away and i cannot view or open my shared libraries, I've already checked the network, the home sharing button in preferences and everything. Can someone help me answer why the home sharing icon keeps dissapearing?? Thanks!!
Its a Macbook Pro... and I have restarted both computers and turned home sharing on and off a few times and restarted Itunes. Still no icon!
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Can't see the Home Sharing Icon
I can't see the home sharing icon on the left hand itunes menu despite having activated the home share in the advanced settings tab. Can anyone help?
Hey I had the same problem,
Thanks to you I found it.
It's not supposed to be there, once you activate it it goes away.
If you want to see it, go to the advanced tab, click turn it off, then turn it back on, but don't say DONE on the last step or it hides it.
If you go to other computers or laptops it should probablly be there if that's how you configured it...
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my computers are authorized and home sharing is turned on...why can I not see the home sharing icon to troubleshoot and import libraries?
Hello jfromlea,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
You can use the following article to troubleshoot your Home Sharing issues:
Troubleshooting Home Sharing
Regards,
Jeff D. -
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Although my home sharing in my apple tv was working up until we had problems with our internet (now fixed), I am now having problems! Although it says turn on home sharing there is no icon in my itunes library to turn on!
If the Home Sharing icon is not visible, choose Advanced > Turn On Home Sharing from the menu bar. (You can disable or enable Home Sharing for your computer using the Advanced menu.)
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the following is for iTunes 9 but, except the colors, applies to iTunes 10 too:
what you want to see in iTunes is this (view from my MBP's iTunes seeing the library on my Mini)
if you then click on the house icon, it will change to this and the shared library will load. at that point, two buttons will appear in the lower right corner of the iTunes window, being settings and import
now you should be able to import any content from any shared library by selecting the content and clicking on import.
if the icon looks like this , home sharing has not been set up correctly.
in order for home sharing to work
(a) iTunes on all machines must be authorized for the same iTunes store account
(b) all machines must be on the same network
(c) all machines must have access to the internet.
if none of the above makes a difference, try turning home sharing off on all computers, then turning it back on.
these reads will be useful: one and two.
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ontthe top menu
View > Show sidebar
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The support page tells me to enter a file name but not where to enter it I cant see a home sharing icon on the iturnestore page
Look in Settings > Music > Home Sharing. What is required is your Apple ID.
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See here: https://www.apple.com/support/homesharing/ -
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After upgrading to new itunes application I attempted to set-up home sharing between my macpro lap top and my imac. Used same apple id on both machines.
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Well first off... I'm baffled that you succeeded in setting up personal email without a data plan.
You need a data plan to access the BIS network which allows you web browsing (off wifi), email, BBM and the like.
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