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<blockquote data-quote="benorubin" data-source="post: 243683" data-attributes="member: 19271"><p>And for the answers, courtesy of Apple's Tech Support:</p><p></p><p>First, I had to change the 2nd account from a standard user to admin.</p><p></p><p>As far as iTunes is concerned it was as simple as moving the iTunes folder to the Shared user folder. Next, go into iTunes Preferences, Advanced, click Change for the folder location, and select the Shared folder. Do this for both user accounts.</p><p></p><p>Now iPhotos was a little more complicated. Moving the iPhoto library to shared did not work. You have to do that for both users (I'm still not sure why). Then you have to give full access permissions on the account where the library and photos were originally created (use Finder and Get Info on the iPhoto Library icon). Once that is done both users can use the same iPhoto library. iPhoto does not have a Change folder location option for its library. So you have to manually move the folders around.</p><p></p><p>One other note. For setting up iPhoto, make sure Fast User Switiching is off. If not, the changes will not hold.</p><p></p><p>HTH</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="benorubin, post: 243683, member: 19271"] And for the answers, courtesy of Apple's Tech Support: First, I had to change the 2nd account from a standard user to admin. As far as iTunes is concerned it was as simple as moving the iTunes folder to the Shared user folder. Next, go into iTunes Preferences, Advanced, click Change for the folder location, and select the Shared folder. Do this for both user accounts. Now iPhotos was a little more complicated. Moving the iPhoto library to shared did not work. You have to do that for both users (I'm still not sure why). Then you have to give full access permissions on the account where the library and photos were originally created (use Finder and Get Info on the iPhoto Library icon). Once that is done both users can use the same iPhoto library. iPhoto does not have a Change folder location option for its library. So you have to manually move the folders around. One other note. For setting up iPhoto, make sure Fast User Switiching is off. If not, the changes will not hold. HTH [/QUOTE]
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