Just need a central location for itunes music

Have itunes10 running on a laptop, with two users on it. Let call them usera and userb. When userb imports a cd usera can't see it even though I've updated both users itunes media folder location to c:\users\public\music
The same laptop is authorized and home sharing is on.
Whats going on here?

In iTunes, right-click on the song of interest, then click Show in Windows Explorer. This will open the relevant folder.
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while you wait for your feature request(s) to be implemented, you might want to have a look @ this (rather old, to be sure) article.
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See iTunes Folder Watch for a tool to catch up with any changes since the backup file was created.
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settings - app/iTunes store - sign out and sign back in with your new id.
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...or will it create it's own space outwith my backup stuff?
(Secondary question: would moving my iTunes music from internal to external drive noticably improve performance of my Mac? I'm using about 135GB of a 250GB drive, 60GB of which is in iTunes Music folder)

Should I create a partition on external drive for iTunes music? or will it create it's own space outwith my backup stuff?
I see no good reason to create a separate partition unless you're backing up with Time Machine. TM prefers to have it's own volume, so in that case partitioning would probably be a good idea.
would moving my iTunes music from internal to external drive noticably improve performance of my Mac? I'm using about 135GB of a 250GB drive, 60GB of which is in iTunes Music folder.
No, probably not. As long as you're not getting the drive too full - opinions vary but about 20GB remaining should be plenty for most uses - you probably won't see any overall change in performance just from moving the iTunes content.
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Just installed the latest upgrade for iTunes. Cannot open iTunes store?

Hey there Ray Neilson,
It sounds like you are able to open iTunes but cannot access the store. I recommend the troubleshooting from the article named:
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If you're receiving a specific error message, follow these steps.
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Choose Edit > Delete.
Choose File > Save.
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Right-click the duplicate file, and choose Rename.
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HT2534 I have just created an Apple Id for itunes, it is allowing me to get to the debit card stage but they no longer accept Visa Debit, there is no other option for me as i dont have any other cards and there isnt a 'none' option! HELP!!

I have just created an Apple Id for itunes, it is allowing me to get to the debit card stage but they no longer accept Visa Debit, there is no other option for me as i dont have any other cards and there isnt a 'none' option! HELP!!

How did you create the account ? Unless you followed the instructions on the page that you post from exactly then you won't get the 'none' option and you will need to enter payment details - those instructions won't work on existing accounts.
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I have been studying how to use ssh, but this has been bothering me and I will really appreciate any help.
When you generate public keys for users, they go to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys . If you as root, want to take control of all users public keys, say you want to have a central location for all public keys. You want sshd to read all keys from a different location rather than ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.
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Hello all;
I'd like to set up my home network to include network attached storage eg 500GB external hard drive, which I use as the location for my iTunes movies and music; the intention would be to allow all machines (Macs or Windows or Linux) on the LAN to download to and then read from this central drive, so for example I could download in one room and then go to another room and watch the movie on a more appropriate machine; essentially it is a central shared library on the network.
Assuming all iTunes instances point to the same file location, are there other gotchas I need to keep in mind? eg DRM?
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