Multiple Libraries / Keyboard Layout folders?

Howdy All -
Because Mac doesn't ship w/ a proper Arabic keyboard, I made one using ukelele. I added this to my old MacBook. So far so good. I bought an Air in the spring, transferred my account from the MacBook - no problems (ahem, related to the keyboard layouts).
However, I wanted to share this keyboard layout with friends and colleages (the world!), but when I navigate to my user's "Keyboard Layout" folder in Library, there is only a layout I recently designed. Is there another place I might find the other layouts I made previously (& that are still listed in Language preferences)?
I seem to recall both a "local" and "global" Keyboard Layouts folder in 10.6: if I added a keyboard layout to the global folder, then all users had access to it. But if I added it to the local folder, only that particular user could access it. But I can't find any such alternative layout folder.
Thanks in advance for your help!
All the best,
Rax

Your problem is that Home/Library is not visible in Lion without some special effort. See
http://tidbits.com/article/12306
I would be interested in having a copy of your layout, I have made a couple myself to fix various issues, e.g.
http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2009/11/os-x-106-switching-arabic-pc-keyboard.html

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Jeff:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. The only way at present to merger multiple libraries into one library and retain keywords, rolls, etc, is to use the paid version of iPhoto Library Manager. That will get you one library. If that library gets very large then you might have a storage problem on your boot drive where you want to keep adequate free space for optimal performance. In that case multiple libraries might be best for you.
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mdowers wrote:
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micromouse wrote:
After that, switch to your wife's PC music Library via Tools->Settings->PC Music Library. then import only those tracks that your wife wants.
MM - mdowers doesn't want to let his wife loose in Settings.
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Message Edited by PeeBee on 09-5-2005 07:53 PM

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