ITunes accounts and home sharing

First thank you in advance for all your help. I will really need it. My hubby and I both have itunes accounts. My hubby wants me to close my iTunes acct and use his, that way we can use home sharing on all our devices. I have no problem with closing my acct, but I don't want to lose all my pictures. I don't mind losing all my apps. I can re-download those. But I don't want to lose my pictures. Please help me. I'm not very good with apple as I am a PC user, but my hubby felt the need to upgrade me with a Mac book air, because my net book is dying. If it helps these are the devices that we are working with, ip5, ip4, iPod, iPad mini*2 and a Mac book air. I do well with step by step instruction. If there is a way to merge our accounts without losing data that would be super great. Any help is appreciated and welcome. TIA apple community

No. All iTunes purchases remain permanently tied to the account used to purchase them. You can however authorize your computer for multiple accounts and any Apple devices can hold protected content from up to five different accounts at any one time.
If you are trying to merge two separate iTunes libraries into one that is a different problem. Take the largest, add all the content from the smallest, then dedupe.
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I had the exact same problem between my two Windows 7 computers when I updated them to iTunes 10.1 - the shared library would show up on the side in iTunes, but when I attempted to open it, it would say it was loading for a while and then disappear.
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Hi, emmyluvsmusiq.
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
I would verify that home sharing is enabled. You will need to access the menu bar which is hidden by default. To enable the menu bar, you can press Control-B. Once this is done, select File > Home Sharing > Turn On Home Sharing. Follow the same steps with the devices that are using this feature.
iTunes: Setting up Home Sharing on your computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4620
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972
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Welcome to the Apple Community.
Unfortunately, if Apple simply allowed people to log into different accounts and download content, everyone would be using everyone could share everyone else's content and bypass the need to purchase anything. To protect against this, they limit you to logging into a new account to once every 90 days.
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