Two Libraries, one on Mac and the other on external drive

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Two Libraries, one on Mac and the other on external drive

My son had a Mac G5 and has itunes setup and has his own content, i have a separate library for my MacBook Pro but mines on an external USB hard drive, i don't want to combine the 2, rather have them separate, what would be the easies way to do this. What i have been doing is just option click and choose from the dialog and then he just uses choose library, but the only problem with that is when the external one isn't connected it would be nice if it never had that dialog box popup just go to his iTunes library on his Mac by default, and then when he plugs the USB drive in have that dialog popup happen automatic and just choose. Or and i just going about this all wrong and what would be the easier way?

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MacBook Pro (Late 08), Power Mac G5, iPhone 16GB, Mac OS X (10.5.6), 4 GB of Ram

Posted on Jan 23, 2010 8:39 AM

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ta

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Jan 23, 2010 9:03 AM in response to seemoore

Unless there is a trick that I'm unaware of, itunes defaults to the last library used. So, if your son is confident he played his library last he can start itunes without the need to select a library. Otherwise, you'll each need to option into the appropriate library.

I see what you are asking for though, and it sounds like a nice option. Always start itunes into a default library, and option into secondary libraries. I don't think we get to do this. I'll admit though, that I'm not totally up to speed with third party tweaks.

Another option would be to create a user for yourself, and target your library from there. You could even load your music onto the machine for simplicity. But, logging in and out is more button pushing.

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