Updating itunes library occurs with sharing an iTunes Library

Hi,
I have two macs, one of the macs has the iTunes library on a hard drive connected to it, lets called it "Mac1". I have another mac called "Mac2" which I mount the hard drive from "Mac1".
So I go about and make sure iTunes is not running on "Mac1", then go ahead and start iTunes on "Mac2". After I'm done and shutdown iTunes, if I restart iTunes on "Mac1" I get the message "updating itunes library" which takes a while since I have a large iTunes library.
Any ideas? I'm very careful to shutdown on iTunes on one computer before starting it up on another.
Thanks for any input, this is driving me crazy

iamjedi wrote:
I think I may take your suggestion and just have separate libraries.
you can use _*Home Sharing*_ to keep them in sync.
also, there are 3rd party tools such as
PowerTunes
TuneRanger
Syncopation
however, a "one-iTunes-library-with-multiple-computers" approach is doable. click here for information.
JGG

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