Multi user mode in windows & itunes library sync

I moved my itunes music from my personal folder to shared documents folder & can not sync my ipod anymore. All my music is on my ipod as well as on the shared folder itunes library but itunes now opens with no music & I can not sync automatically.
What should I do?

Hi, olivier.
This article in the Apple Knowledge Base describes the steps you should have taken in changing the location of your iTunes Music folder.
Is it possible for you to backtrack the steps you took and then follow those instructions?

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I have multiple users set up on my Powerbook G4 for myself and my 2 kids.
They just got 4G Nanos for christmas, so I want to share my itunes music with them.
Can someone please explain how I do this, so that they can log in to their own accounts on the G4, start itunes and update their own ipod nanos individually with music shared from my itunes folder?
Thanks

that's actually what i do, i keep my library on an external firewire drive, and then back it up to another external firewire occasionally, as at almost 90gb, i certainly dont want to lose the music i've ripped from my huge cd collection.
i've also found that while i too was concerned about taking my entire library with me on vacation, i found that i never got too far into my 40gb ipod library, let alone wanting more... i actually use my ipod more, even at work, since i'd rather update ratings and things on there vs the main hd, and i sync manually. maybe just use the ipod for the bulk of what's in the lib, and if there's anything missing that you think you'll want, make sure that is available on the hd when you go.
if you do go the route of keeping it on the external, i'd go ahead and move it over to there, and then tell itunes that it's in a new place (via prefs), and it might have to re-map a few songs (+/- 10%), but you won't have to do the alias trick, which might not work right if itunes is launched and the ext drive is not mounted. i do the alias trick at home on two computers, and the ext drive at work for the big libraries.
and while i personally wouldn't recommend it, there are a few apps out there that can "virtually" re-partition the hd, some without having to set it up that way first. i think one is called "drive genius"... i was looking at them about a year ago for my emac, but since it only has a 40gb, i just copied everything over to my ext firewire drive, and then reformatted, tested, and partitioned, and then copied everythign back. it also gave me an opp to do a fresh install of the system, which i like to do every year or so when the time is there for me to do it. it keeps me from cluttering up my computer too much over time, and gets the extra caches and localizations out that onyx and the like don't find.
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- jeremy
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While you're correct in that Windows media won't sync to the iPhone (or any i-device), the OP states that all the music is in iTunes. If its in iTunes, it would no longer be in Windows media format since it would have been transcoded to whatever the user sets as their import preference (AAC, mp3, etc.), and once that is done then the media should be able to sync to the iPhone just fine.
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Hello autochthon,
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Sal,
As this article in the Apple Knowledge Base explains the trick is to move the iTunes Music folder, not the entire iTunes folder, to "a publicly accessible location" and I believe they mean to suggest C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Music as a good place.
It is important that the iTunes Library files remain in Sal's Documents and Sal's Wife's Documents.

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1 Mac. Two User accounts. Same iTunes library.

can two user accounts use the same tunes library?
i donthave to put the library in the public/shared folder do i?
thx

one question though.....
it seems that each user has a different user library, even though the libaray files are stored in the same place.....
that is irriating
how can i tell itunes to have both users itunes library data files in the same place?
is that possible?

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So I have both accounts now working... sort of. The problem is that the common iTunes Media folder they share does not contain the iTunes Library files (.itl and .xml). Those files are still in each account's Home folder iTunes Media folder. I can see this will be a problem keeping the shared iTunes Media folder happy.
I'm not sure how I got things to this point but I do want to correct it.
Can can I copy one of the account's iTunes Library files to the shared iTunes Media folder?

Multi user mode in windows & itunes library sync

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