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hi there,
I have a macbook pro at home but use a PC at work. I currently have my library on an external hard drive which i cart back and from from work to home. I am running itunes 9 on both platforms and the library is accessed by both versions of itunes. The problem I have is that each time i open itunes on a mac after using itunes on the pc it has to update my library which takes ages (and vice versa too but its slower on the pc to mac transition than the other way around). Does any of you have an idea on how to avoid this please?

the itunes library is in one directory
Do you mean the \iTunes\ folder which contains the iTunes library.itl file, the iTunes library.xml file, the \Album Artwork\ folder, \Previous iTunes libraries\ folder and a few others?
There is no \iTunes library\ folder.
Do you have the same version of iTunes (9.0 or 9.0.1) on both machines?
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