Scripting Test With Library On Other Computer

I'm doing some testing on another script I wrote to do some cleanup on my library. I took the two library files (iTunes Library.itl and iTunes Music Library.xml) and copied them to another machine with a clean install of the same version (7.5.0.20) of iTunes. When I bring up iTunes, after a few minutes, all the songs end up with an exclamation mark in the far left column, showing that iTunes can not find that file. When I run the script, it does not find any tracks. Of course, this makes sense, but is there any way to turn that functionality off? I'd like to be able to test my script on a machine that does not have my "live" library.
Thanks

I think you will need to have some music files on the other computer.
You can simply copy across some of your music files and add them to a library created on you test computer. Then run the script on that.
If you wanted to test the real library database you would have to have your music files there as well, but this would only work if the files were in the iTunes Music folder - otherwise you would need an identical account name, as iTunes is extemely fussy about the full path to music files. However it can cope with a different path above the iTunes Music folder for files in the iTunes Music folder.

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