Moving all iTunes' music to another Mac OS X account on the same system?
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From: Tom Stiller on 13 Oct 2008 07:17 In article <LLidnTSsjrFkmW7VnZ2dnUVZ_oPinZ2d(a)earthlink.com>, Ant <ANTant(a)zimage.com> wrote: > Hello. > > I accidently have all the songs under the wrong account in Mac OS X > 10.5.5 because I copied all songs from an old iPod Nano to a new MacBook > Pro's HDD and a clean iTunes with Senuti program. > > How can I move them to the other account on the HDD? Even as an > administrator, I cannot access the account I want to move to in Finder. > I see the "access denied" folders with their red sold circle with thick > white horizontal lines and borders. Accessing Music folder showed "The > folder 'Music' could not be opened because you do not have sufficient > access privileges." > > Or do I have to log in with the correct account and reuse Senuti program > to move all the songs again. :( > > Thank you in advance. :) If you're not afraid of the Terminal, you can move the folder and its contents with "sudo mv <path to source> <path to destination>". Use "sudo chown -R <old short name> <new short name> <path to destination>" to transfer ownership to the new account. -- Tom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF
From: John Stewart on 13 Oct 2008 07:56 On 2008-10-13 04:21:13 -0400, Ant <ANTant(a)zimage.com> said: > I accidently have all the songs under the wrong account in Mac OS X > 10.5.5 because I copied all songs from an old iPod Nano to a new > MacBook Pro's HDD and a clean iTunes with Senuti program. Oops! > How can I move them to the other account on the HDD? Even as an > administrator, I cannot access the account I want to move to in Finder. > I see the "access denied" folders with their red sold circle with thick > white horizontal lines and borders. Accessing Music folder showed "The > folder 'Music' could not be opened because you do not have sufficient > access privileges." Are you planning on adding them to an existing library or making a new library? > Or do I have to log in with the correct account and reuse Senuti > program to move all the songs again. :( I suggest: The folowing is generic to both of the methods I'll give. Open the original account, and locate the music folder. It is probably at the top level of the account's home folder. Drag this folder to the "/Users/Shared" folder. This will make the same library accessible to all accounts on the computer. Set your iTunes preferences -> Advanced tab -> "iTunes Music Folder Location" to point to this new location (all accounts). Library Listing from 'wrong' account (i.e. new Library): Launch iTunes while holding down the Options key. This brings up a dialog which will allow you to choose an existing library or make a new one. Select the "Choose Library" button and navigate to the "/Users/Shared/Music/iTunes/" folder and select the "ITunes Library" file (not "iTunes Music Library.xml"). You can do this from all accounts to make this Library available in all accounts. Changes from one account will then be reflected in all others. I have my Library on a network disk, works fine. The iTunes preferences are set so that iTunes moves all added music to it's folder. This makes my music available on all computers and accounts that can access my network. Add to existing Library: Drag the "iTunes Music" folder in "/Users/Shared/Music/iTunes/" to the iTunes icon in the Dock of your preferred account and drop it. iTunes will import the music. As an alternative you can launch iTunes and choose "Add to Library…" (cmd+O) in the file menu and navigate to the "iTunes Music" Folder. J
From: Warren Oates on 13 Oct 2008 07:49 In article <tom_stiller-CA55FF.07175613102008(a)news.verizon.net>, Tom Stiller <tom_stiller(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > If you're not afraid of the Terminal, you can move the folder and its > contents with "sudo mv <path to source> <path to destination>". Use > "sudo chown -R <old short name> <new short name> <path to destination>" > to transfer ownership to the new account. I wouldn't use mv for that (although your instructions are concise and accurate), I'd use rsync, which is more complicated but which will move all the xattrs and acls and the permissions you want and copy god knows what else iTunes may have added. The id3 stuff should stay intact, matter what. Umm, of course, like a lot of stuff with Apple's BSD, you probably shouldn't use the rsync 2.6.9 they supply, y'all should get the latest 3.0.4. The good news is that it builds clean and passes all the tests, G4 or Intel. You could also use ditto, which comes with OS X, and is reasonably useful. man ditto http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/ -- W. Oates
From: Jolly Roger on 13 Oct 2008 11:50 In article <michelle-2DEE1F.07563413102008(a)news.west.cox.net>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > In article <LLidnTSsjrFkmW7VnZ2dnUVZ_oPinZ2d(a)earthlink.com>, > Ant <ANTant(a)zimage.com> wrote: > > > How can I move them to the other account on the HDD? Even as an > > administrator, I cannot access the account I want to move to in > > Finder. I see the "access denied" folders with their red sold circle > > with thick white horizontal lines and borders. Accessing Music folder > > showed "The folder 'Music' could not be opened because you do not > > have sufficient access privileges." > > I don't know for sure, but this might the the time to activate the root > account, make the transfer, and then disable root. 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. -- 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
From: Jolly Roger on 13 Oct 2008 11:51
In article <qq6dnVswBobX-W7VnZ2dnUVZ_gednZ2d(a)earthlink.com>, Ant <ANTant(a)zimage.com> wrote: > On 10/13/2008 7:56 AM PT, Michelle Steiner typed: > > >> How can I move them to the other account on the HDD? Even as an > >> administrator, I cannot access the account I want to move to in > >> Finder. I see the "access denied" folders with their red sold circle > >> with thick white horizontal lines and borders. Accessing Music folder > >> showed "The folder 'Music' could not be opened because you do not > >> have sufficient access privileges." > > > > I don't know for sure, but this might the the time to activate the root > > account, make the transfer, and then disable root. > > How do I activate root via GUI? I know about sudo via command line. There is no need to activate root! -- 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 |