How to share music/itunes folder between 2 imacs on a network?
I have a mac network.(my imac, 2 ipads and 2 iphones 4s. My wife just bought a Imac i5 that we added to our network. Now we want to move out Music/tunes folder from my home directory to an external drive so we can access from either mac. How do I set this up?
Thanks
Hi Paul,
http://fmforums.com/forum/topic/85381-applescript-to-copy-file-from-network-volu me/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5134568/copy-a-file-in-applescript
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