Please help with home sharing on 2 laptops, one loads why wont the other one load content?

Have got home sharing activated on 2 laptops. my husbands laptop has loaded my library no problems, when I try to load his it goes to do it but the library doesnt appear. what am i doing wrong?

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I have home-sharing turned on in my home and have for over a year with no problem. Today my wife opened Itunes and had no library. It said she was not part of home sharing and wasn't signed in. So I signed her in to our account and turned home sharing back on. Now itunes says I have all 5 computers used for home sharing. I only have 4 computers in the house and that's the way its been since I started using itunes. Is there a way to fix this? Why the **** is it telling me I have 5 computers signed in? Its the same computer that was on the home sharing. I never turned it off

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Home Sharing isn't intended to share content from an iOS device, just from a computer.

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I am new to home sharing and I am having trouble transfering my music library to my new laptop. Can anyone please advise the easiest way to do this I am a novice at this type of thing
Regards John

Hi Bonzoboy666,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
Use these steps if you want to transfer your iTunes library from one computer to another:
iTunes 11 for Windows: Use Home Sharing to import items from another iTunes library
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12494
Best,
Jeremy

Can Someone Help With Home Sharing With ATV3?

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I've already check the http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2972 and it doesn't help. I did have a similure problem 7-8 months ago and for 2 months Apple techs asked to share my password, and then gave up and reset my iMatch. I didn't have iMatch for 2 months. I wonder if this is the same problem. That time my iPhone was ok it was my Macbook Pros who didn't share.

Help with home sharing

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Are you possibly referring to Family Sharing and making purchases? Home Sharing is just sharing iTunes content across a shared network. If you are having issues with a purchase, see if this support document provides you with some answers. Family purchases and payments - Apple Support
If not, then contact iTunes support for help. http://www.apple.com/emea/support/itunes/contact.html

Please help with Home Directory and changing drive location

Hi there.
I read some tutorials on moving the home folder to another drive (all went fine), but there are some things I don't quite understand.
I did a fresh Lion install (from SnowLeopard) and decided only to migrate my user data, but no folder data, so every folder in my home directory was completely empty (desktop, movies etc). When I first tried to move my home directory to a new Hard Drive I wrongly assumed that since all those folders were empty I didn't need to copy the home folder manually, just change the location. But when I restarted the computer everything was gone. So I followed the instructions more carefully the next time and manually copied my home folder over to the other HD first (even though every folder contained in the home dir says no data), and that is when I noticed it was copying 26gb of data. So where is this data stored, and what is it? Obviously it's important as on my Mac all my user data was gone, but aren't my settings and mail etc in my Library?
There seems to be no "show hidden data" etc for my Home dir. So there must be somethign about the Home directory (in the users folder) that I don't quite understand?
I have 26gb of data hiding somewhere (when I do 'get info' on the home directory in the user folder, it says 26gb used, but all my folders are empty) and it would be handy to know what this is and the best way to manage it for future backups.
also - can I now completely delete the old home Dir from my System (SSD) drive since it's all on my other HD? All the folders are empty, but it still shows 26gb!
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Hi Ari,
Welcome to discussions!
Unable to access your home directory... In what way? Via FTP? If so, how about deleting the file you made:
cd /etc
sudo rm ./ftpchroot
Or do you mean something else?
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this one is a strange one(if you saw the other one you might understand this better) in any case, i am getting a error and i do not see the reason
here is the code
public Card getCard(int i)
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public Card getCard(int i)
switch(i)
case 1: return (Card) card1;
case 2: return (Card) card2;
case 3: return (Card) card3;
case 4: return (Card) card4;
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}No, no, no. It's really very simple. Imagine this:
Card c = getCard(42);
c.someMethod();What is the value of 'c' after calling getCard()? And what happens when c.someMethod() is called?
You see, the getCard() method does not have a return statement in all cases. A method that returns a value either must be absolutely guaranteed to execute a return statement in all cases, unless an exception in thrown.
So the simplest thing you can do (or an array of cards might be in order here) is just add a default: case that throws an exception.
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       case 2: return (Card) card2;
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Or, if you expect that in normal operation you'll be passing in values other than 1-5, instead of throwing an exception you could return null. But it sounds to me like in your case, it is a bug if a value other that 1-5 is ever passed in.

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I want to set up home sharing on a laptop but it won't let me. Error code (-3252) comes up. Please help.

I want to set up home sharing on a laptop (nothing on this iTunes library apart from the purchases from the iTunes store made on my ipod touch) but it won't let me. Error code (-3252) comes up. Please help.

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My HP laptop with windows 8 won't recognize any library with home sharing; although the other computers do.
I've tried activating and deactivating home sharing multiple times, any other reason why this is happening?
Thanks

A couple of other things you might like to try :-
- Determine whether you are able to access the internet from anywhere else on your new PC (e.g. do Windows updates download ? Can you access the Windows 8 store ? ) If the answer is no, then your problem doesn't lie with IE but with the actual wireless connection. If the answer is yes, then continue as below.
- Run IE from the desktop instead of the Start screen - probably won't make any difference, but worth a try.
- Download a decent browser like Firefox or Chrome and try that - this will show whether the problem lies just with IE or not
- As a general rule, don't do anything that PC World tell you to do, lol !
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So, for the last 10 days I have simply been trying to move all of my iTunes stuff from an old Dell Inspiron to a brand new Dell Inspiron.
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I have an iPhone 4 that was originally synced with an older model of Dell Insipron laptop. The iPhone is still running iOS 6 becasue there is not enough room on the phone to update to iOS 7 (Since it can't get iOs 8). I recently bought a new laptop, a new Dell Inspiron. My plan was simply to transfer everything from the old Dell to the new Dell, factory reset the iPhone then update it to latest iOS possible, and sync all my music and apps back onto it with the new Dell, leaving it synced to the new Dell.
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I am quite tech savy, know both my laptops inside and out and have cleared the old laptop of everything unnecessary and turned off all unnecessary processes. The laptop works properly doing everything but Home Sharing, so this has to be a problem with iTunes. I tried Calling Apple Support, only to be told they wont even think about the issue unless I pay for apple care, which I can most definitely not afford right now. Really, I just need this stuff transferred so I can wipe the iPhone so I can update the iOS and have my personal iTunes on my new laptop.
Please can anyone help, I would be so grateful.... iTunes has been nothing but trouble ever since i got my first iPod, and it's not even the products, it's always just the iTunes software on my laptop that causes the issue. I really don't care how I get these protected files off the old laptop onto the new one, I just need help getting them there!
Also a note: I no longer have the majority of the Cd's, etc, that these files came off of... Alot of them now belong to other family members who may well be accross the other side of the country.
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Also a note: I no longer have the majority of the Cd's, etc, that these files came off of... Alot of them now belong to other family members who may well be accross the other side of the country.

HT4557 Music More Shared does not appear and the password has been set up properly on all devices. What is wrong with Home Sharing?

Really I can't believe how pathetic Apple products are at allowing people under the hood of certain settings or giving you some clue to what error messages mean. My password is entered properly on all devices I'm trying to use Home Sharing on, all check boxes are checked yet the iPad still cannot discover what is on the PC's iTunes list. I've tried everything in all of the forums on this site and nothing works, there is no Music>More>Sharing box that pops up. Also there is no Airplay button in my iTunes on my PC. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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HT2688 why cant i import with home sharing?

i have set up home sharing on 2 windows laptops but the import button is not active??? its very frustrating coz my partner has things on her i pod i want. please help thanks

Why do you need to import via HomeSharing, simply copy the files from one comptuer to another.

When i copy songs with home sharing it shows it copying but doesn't show up in the library

When I copy songs with home sharing it shows it copying but doesn't show up in the library. What should I do ?

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Shared Library with Home Sharing off??

I am using itunes with 2 different macs (most recent mac pro and most recent MBP). My MBP has the library I am sharing, which I use to play it on my Mac Pro.
So when I have home sharing on, I see the little house icon, with my library from my laptop in the shared area of the sidebar. But then there is the library again with a different icon that is there even if home sharing is off.
Here is what it looks like: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1885149/Screen%20shot%202010-09-07%20at%205.08.44%20PM.p ng
What is the icon and why can I access the library with homesharing off?
Thanks!

jbartholomew wrote:
What is the icon
the icon indicates that iTunes sees another library on your network but home sharing is not set uo.
and why can I access the library with homesharing off?
you should be able to see the contents of the other library but you shouldn't be able to transfer content.
JGG

Please help with home sharing on 2 laptops, one loads why wont the other one load content?

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