Dear Mickey, I'm not an expert, but I just went through a somewhat similar process with my iTunes music library, which I set up to access from two different accounts on one computer running Tiger. I had to play with it for a while, and one of the first things you should look at is permissions on the actual music files. Locate the folder where those files reside, open the "Get Info" box (for the folder, not the actual song files, unless you want to do this step for each song individually), and set the permissions on the folder to allow both accounts to read and write (CHECK the apply to enclosed items box). To do this, you basically have one of the accounts be the owner, and, from that account, set the group to be able to read and write (I believe that by default, every account on the same computer belongs to Staff, so that's probably the group you should use - though it might be Wheel). Now, you should be able to access the files from both accounts. As I recall right now, I had some trouble getting this step to work. When I tried to change the file permissions, it seemed to reset itself (several times) to allowing only the original owner to read and write (I have my music library on a second internal hard drive, which may make a difference here), but when I gave up and logged out, the other account was then able to access the files anyway, and subsequently, the permissions showed up the way I had been trying to set them. Next, find the iTunes Music Library database file and the iTunes Music xml file. These will probably be in a folder called iTunes in the Music folder in your Home folder. If one of the accounts has these set up in a way that you like, then you can copy them over to the other account and then both accounts should have the same playlists and everything. Alternatively, you can probably skip this step if you don't want the same playlists and so on from the other account. If you only want to access the songs, and will be setting up your own playlists on each account, then there's no need to do this. And anyway, the two accounts won't be linked, and whatever happens to one set of playlists from here on in won't affect the other playlist at all (I suppose you could set up the files in each home folder as aliases, and then link to the actual files located elsewhere and they may remain linked and therefore reflect any changes made in the other account, including play counts and so on - but that seems like asking for trouble). I know this is rather long, and perhaps not particularly clear or helpful, but hey, what do you expect for nothing? Ray Gossen Bondi Blue iMac acting as gorgeous paperweight G4 PowerMac, OS X 10.4.1 Original Message: Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Mickey Winfree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: iTunes Woes Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 21:16:48 -0400 Hey, I just set up my Daughter with her own account in Tiger. I have all the iTunes song files on a new external Firewire HD. In both accounts, I have the HD as the storage folder for all music. I opened iTunes in my daughter's account and the Library was empty. I proceeded to "add to Library" from File menu and chose the music folder on the new HD. It added all the songs fine. Now, when I try to use iTunes in My Account, I get the exclamation point and a pop up saying "The song 'X' could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?" (cut)
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