Sharing Itunes on the same Computer with 2 users

This is probably really basic - I have created a second user account on my puter and no matter what I do to allow access to Itunes the second user cannot access the files. I have copied the files and placed them in the music folder (twice) for that user and every time I launch Itunes on this second profile Im told its a locked disk and cannot be accessed (despite allowing read and write for the whole galaxy) what am I missing?
I dont seem to able to file share anything and basically install the same software for both profiles - surley there is way to allow them to happen?
Cheers - ben off the Mac thing for 7 yrs and now relearning after PC.

I have the exact same problem! My kid has a "private" sign in on our computer and she opened Itunes and bought 2 songs that we can now only get to through her sign in. Is there a way to consolidate these 2 Itunes to just one? I tried the "consolidate library" but it is obvious not intended for this purpose.
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I have been troubleshooting a problem sharing iTunes on a single computer with multiple users that cropped up a few weeks ago and have not had very good luck.
Several months ago I successfully set up my wife’s G4 Laptop (PowerPC processor) so that we could share iTunes on that computer. I had just gotten her an “My Book” external hard drive (Western Digital). The iTunes Library will go on this new unit because the internal drive was running out of room. I successfully set the privileges, moved the entire library onto a “Share” directory and everything worked fine.
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