Same Library Two Hard Drives updates on both drives?

Not exactly sure where this should be posted, since it involves more than just iTunes.
I have a rather large library (60,000 songs, 350GB). I have this on two identical (manually copied) drives as well as other content such as an aperture library.
The reason for two drives is that I travel a lot and take the drive with me. While one drive stays at home for my wife to use. If I am out of town and add files to the drive and she adds files to the drive at home. what is the most efficient way to make these two drives identical again, both with the updates from each other?

Go to Edit > Preferences > Advanced and use the Change button to set the location of the iTunes Music folder to the external. Then run Library > Consolidate and iTunes will copy the files over to the new location.
Once you do this, avoid starting up iTunes without the external connected, as that will cause iTunes to revert.

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I want to share one iTunes Library or Media folder (Its the same thing isn't it?) between two bootable partitions. Each has its own copy of iTunes.
There are 3 partitions in total: The first 2 (mentioned above) each run an OS an the 3rd is a Data partition for storage. The Data partition is where I want to store my iTunes Media folder.I have managed to move and successfully run the iTunes Library/Media folder from the Data partition on the Lion partition. But it my computer won't play fair and share its musical toys with the other iTunes app.
I don't see any reason why this is not possible but just I can't get a shared parition to work on both Lion and Snow Leopard partitions. The partitions do have different versions of iTunes on if that makes a difference (Lion has iTunes 10 & SL has iTunes 11)?
I'd love to get this sorted iTunes takes up huge amount of space on my computer and I really miss my music when I'm working on Snow Leopard!
All helpful words an whispers much appreciated!

If you want to use two external drives to store your itunes content, there are a couple of ways you could go about it.
You could choose to have just movies (for example) on one HDD and everything else on the other. You could further choose to have your itunes music folder on one HDD and have all content copied to it by default. When it comes to movies (in this example) you can place these on your second HDD and add them to itunes by using OPT-drag, which will temporarily disable itunes from copying the file to your itunes library.
You could also entirely disable disable itunes copying files to your itunes music folder from the itunes preferences and manually manage all your content.
Personally I'd just buy a 2 TB (for example) drive and ebay your old drive once you have moved everything from it to your new one.

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Short version of story:
Just put Sonnet PCI SATA card in G4 Digital Audio Powermac running Tiger. Have replaced two IDE drives with *Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1 TB hard drive*. It's recognized and working fine. EXCEPT: this is the now infamous drive ST31000340AS that WILL most certainly fail if it does not get the firmware update that Seagate has made available. (These drives are failing like crazy-- Google for info, do not buy!) I have the firmware update on CD as an ISO file (of course Seagate makes nothing that it Mac friendly but this has worked for other Mac users). But when I try to flash the firmware by starting from the CD ("C" key held down), nothing happens. The G4 just goes ahead and starts Tiger 10.4.11. I have also tried holding down "O + F + option + control on start up. I'm not getting anywhere.
Since the drive is functional and it's the only drive in the G4, what am I doing wrong? Help!

I just got off the phone with Seagate who say that while my model numbers are the affected drives, my two drives have serial numbers that do NOT need a firmware update. (Yet!)
However, I'm not feeling very lucky. I took these two drives from my Maxtor One Touch III 2 TB external hard-drive because it was failing intermittently-- "now you see me, now you don't." Not very good for a backup drive! But Maxtor/Seagate is providing nothing for Maxtor One Touch III owners under warranty but another refurbished (as in previously failed) Maxtor One Touch III and asking hundreds of dollar$ for data recovery. There is not even a firmware update at this point. People should be avoiding Seagate Barracuda drives (these used to be the best of the best, but not now) or at least researching them *very thoroughly* before buying.
I guess, the good news is that I don't have to struggle with getting a firmware update to work on my PowerMac. Though thanks to you both I will know what to do if these drives eventually do need a firmware update. The other good news is that I got all my data back by pulling the drives from their enclosure which apparently causes overheating. I violated my warranty, pulled the drives, and got all my data back.
At the moment both of my Barracuda drives are happily purring away in my PowerMac G4 giving that old baby 2 Tb to play with. (I use iPartition so getting the drives recognized on the G4 isn't a problem.) And since I have my new iMac 3.06ghz 24" with all my data backup on WD external drives, I will only use the G4 networked for extra storage (backup for my backup). (I am also using Disk Warrior and Data Rescue II to keep an eye on these drives.)
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Hello,
Thank you HP for this Expert Day... and thank you, too, experts on duty !
Years ago just as soon as Win 98 was available, I immediately upgraded to it from Win 95. Doing so caused me to lose my audio capability... for which I never found a solution. Thereafter, I have never upgraded my OS until I purchased a new machine. The average time I keep a new machine is 8 years. Finances simply do not allow for more timely purchases of new machines. Therefore, I am always lagging way behind in the new OS arena.
When Vista arrived on the scene, I was still running Win 98 (on a newer machine than the one that lost audio). There was so much controversy regarding Vista that I elected to purchase a "Designed for Windows XP, Windows Vista Capable" laptop and desktop. I thought that I could "re-learn" Windows via XP and then transition to that new "beast" Vista when I felt more comfortable. Note: jumping from Win 98 directly to Vista just seemed too big a leap for me to make without an OS stepping stone in-between. I also figured that with getting a Vista capable machine I would be ahead for a bit. Well, as circumstances would have it, due to a problematic move out of state, all tech stuff went into storage... literally... for well over 3 years and the OS has changed twice since Vista, which I still don't have installed.
Anyway, I really want to give Win 8 (heck, even Win 7 would be nice) a try, but when I go to HP's site for my Compaq Presario C303NR it states that HP is not developing new drivers for this machine. Furthermore, I can't even find a support page for my Pavilion m7690y... closely numbered other models, yes, but not my specific model of desktop.
When I went to Intel's site for whatever new drivers I could find there, it states that all of their drivers are generic and that new drivers should be obtained from the machine's original manufacturer because the hardware may be manufacturer modified thereby causing the generic driver to not work properly.
When I last updated my sole machine, I purchased 2 laptops, Compaq Presario C303NR and a desktop, Pavilion m7690y, entirely because HP had chat available on out-of-warranty products. (Unfortunately, my purchased extended warranties on these machines gathered dust and were never used whilst the machines were in storage during that awful move out of state.) Is one-on-one chat still available?
If not, how do I find my way through this confusing maze of updating drivers so that I have honest-to-goodness working drivers? The laptops might not be too hard, however, the desktop was CTO and has a whole bunch of added "goodies" on it to deal with, i.e., personal media drive, etc.
I found a driver web site with nine new drivers for Windows 7 for the laptops. The downloads appear to link back to HP's ftp. But if HP hasn't developed new drivers for the C303NR, then are these drivers safe to use?
Dear experts, said with utmost respect, can you please provide owners like me with some type of reliable guidance with this issue? I have no one else to ask who isn't just hazaarding a guess.
Also, HP, I understand that it is your primary business to sell NEW machines not support old ones; however, not everyone can afford to replace a machine at the same pace Microsoft is releasing new OS's. Therefore, have you ever considered some type of pay service for downloadable new drivers for old machines? Or, offering a LIST of necessary drivers for running the new OS on an older machine? At the risk of starting a whole different issue, I would pay a reasonable fee to go to a web page, have HP scan my machine, state which drivers needed to be updated and either have them installed on my machine or a list created of SPECIFIC drivers and where to find them for a reasonable fee.
If you have stayed with me to this point, thank you very much for Expert Day, thank you to the experts themselves, and thanks to all for the long read.
P.S. The only thing I might add is that I have been a long-time loyal HP customer. My first pc, purchased in 1996, was a Packard Bell; however, the 4 machines since have all been in the HP family... as have all of my peripherals, i.e., scanner, printer, all-in-one, wireless keyboard and mouse, personal media drive, and even my cameras. When my dad purchased his first machine (a laptop) and all-in-one, I steered him to HP. When I purchased my college-age daughter a laptop, it was a Compaq. I hope my unwaivering loyalty to HP is rewarded with some very much needed concrete help to this message and my need for drivers and Win 8.

Hi:
Looking at both of your machines (I used the m7690n) as a guide for the desktop since it would most likely have the same hardware as yours, it appears they can both run windows 7 just fine.
The problem is...HP does not support either PC for windows 7.
That means you need to either use the drivers for Windows Vista or go to each component manufacturer's support and driver page and download the drivers they may have for Windows 7.
The first thing you should do when contemplating an upgrade to windows 7 is to run the windows 7 upgrade advisor which will report on your PC's ability to run windows 7. Connect and turn on any peripherals you have such as printers, scanners, cameras, etc and the advisor will report on their windows 7 compatibilty as well
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/upgrade-advisor
If you want to go through with upgrading your PC's to Windows 7, and you get stuck trying to find drivers, I will be more than happy to help you out.
Paul

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Do the HD icons appear on your Desktop?
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