Moving all iTunes' music to another Mac OS X account on the same system?
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kir=E1ly?= on 13 Oct 2008 12:11 Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > Ewww no. > > I would just copy them to /Users/Shared from the old account, log into > the other account and copy them into the correct place there, then use > an administrator account to run chmod/chown to set the ownership and > permissions correctly. There's an even easier way that does not require Terminal nor any twiddling with permissions. To move files from user account A to account B, log in to A's account, and move the files to /Users/A/Public. Then log in as B. Navigate with Finder to /Users/A/Public. Drag the files to the Desktop. This will create new copies of them; and B will have full read/write permission. Then put the files away in an appropriate place in B's home folder. Ant, if you want to create a shared folder so that two accounts can share the same iTunes library, follow this hint. It is for iPhoto but works just dandily with iTunes too: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050904072808460&lsrc=osxh -- K. Lang may your lum reek.
From: Jolly Roger on 13 Oct 2008 12:19
In article <WqKIk.1280$fF3.663(a)edtnps83>, me(a)home.spamsucks.ca (Kir�ly) wrote: > Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > > Ewww no. > > > > I would just copy them to /Users/Shared from the old account, log into > > the other account and copy them into the correct place there, then use > > an administrator account to run chmod/chown to set the ownership and > > permissions correctly. > > There's an even easier way that does not require Terminal nor any > twiddling with permissions. > > To move files from user account A to account B, log in to A's account, > and move the files to /Users/A/Public. > > Then log in as B. Navigate with Finder to /Users/A/Public. Drag the > files to the Desktop. This will create new copies of them; and B will > have full read/write permission. Then put the files away in an > appropriate place in B's home folder. Works for me, as long as iTunes likes it. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than to me, as E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR |