Multiple devices multiple users

Hi,
I'm unsure what to do here and can't really find a straight answer anywhere.
I have 2 iPads, iPhone 4s all synced to icloud under my apple ID I use to purchase from iTunes (still on PC, haven't upgraded to Mac yet). My wife has just got an iPhone 5 which I set up with my apple ID to share purchases but would like her to have her own icloud setup, mainly for photostream and calendar that runs independently to mine but also syncs with my PC.
How do I do this??

If you want different stuff synced on different devices, you need your own AppleID for iCloud. You can share an AppleID for iTunes / AppStore purchases.

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turingtest2 wrote:
Wow, I'd forgotten that one...
as I said in the thread, that post did find it's way into my database
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HT4847 Can I have multiple users's family devices backed up to the cloud e.g. 2 iPhones and 2 iPads under the same iTunes account

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This question is somewhat answered on other forum posts, but it begs to be asked again. If enough people ask, maybe the bean counters will start to understand how regular customers buy and use books. Then those same features will be available on eBooks.
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My soapbox comments to feed up to the publishing world's bean counters that are forcing DRM and fixing prices.
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This might not be the right way but since I was having similar issues today, this something that worked.
I placed the domain.site file on my time capsule and the Imac which I created the pages with remembered the site.
On my mac mini I can access the site it if I open the domain.site file directly using the finder and it will then open iweb on my mac mini. If I open iweb directly, it seems to remember previous iweb sites that I created but not the current one.
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How can different family members (using personal logins) all access the same iPhoto library, regardless of which of our two iMacs they happen to be logged into?
I thought the solution would be as simple as:
Plug an external hard drive into the Airport Time Capsule.
Copy our iPhoto library onto the external hard drive.
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iPhoto is strictly a single user database. Only one user at a time can open it.
An iPhoto library needs to be on a locally mounted volume. It cannot be on a network share.
The file system of the drive needs to be MacOS Extended (Journaled).
Apple's only recommendation to share an iPhoto library is this: iPhoto: Sharing libraries among multiple users
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Trying to put the iPhoto or Aperture library on a network volume, will result in library corruption or data loss:
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Cheers,
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I have one account, and I want to be able to have multiple users with access to the library, but I don't want everything to sync. How can I do this?

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You can keep everyone on your iTunes account all you have to do is have everyone create there own iCloud account. Me, my wife, and my son all have our own iCloud for our own use. I have my 3 devices linked to mine, my son has 2 linked to his and my wife has 2 also. For some reason by default the iDevice will ask you to use your iTunes account but you don't have to. You can create it right from the device itself if you want a @me account which is the way to go IMO. you can also go to iCloud.com and create it there too. We have a total of 8 devices linked to one iTunes account for purchases and everything works like a champ. Hope this helps.

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