Did you make sure that in the options it's pointing to the external drive?

By the way, I think you're asking for trouble to have two iTunes pointing at the same library - eg. what happens when you rip a couple more CDs?

Posted By: BerlinCanary on March 29th 2010 at 17:00:34

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Another itunes question (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 29, 15:42:10
- The good news is, yes you can. I'll tell you how... (General Chat) - jafski, Mar 29, 16:39:49
- Two computers on the same network? (General Chat) - APB, Mar 29, 15:51:57
  - haven't got wifi yet, just a really long network cable (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 29, 15:53:59
    - Preferences has a sharing panel. (General Chat) - APB, Mar 29, 16:00:40
      - ah I see you have to have Bonjour to enable it (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 29, 16:03:01
        
        Bonjour's fine with mine. PC talking to Mac. (n/m) (General Chat) - APB, Mar 29, 16:03:47
        
        mmm, maybe I'll reinstall it and see if I can rejig the antivirus (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 29, 16:05:15
        
        Is this a Mac or PC? (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 29, 16:07:07
        
        pc, sadly I'm obliged to have Norton as this lappy belongs to the people who employ me (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 29, 16:11:29
        
        Right, so you shouldn't have iTunes on it... (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 29, 16:17:29
        
        I use Norton and Itoones on my lappy no problem (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Mar 29, 17:12:05
        
        yes this is what's confusing me, I can see the correct folders (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 29, 16:22:48
        
        I'll try this and see what happens (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 29, 16:34:58
        
        Not sure you need to (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 29, 16:37:22
        
        tried that it it did nowt. I'm sure I'll work it out eventually though (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 29, 16:46:04
        
        Did you make sure that in the options it's pointing to the external drive? (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 29, 17:00:34
- Ah, that can be tricky... (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 29, 15:50:48
  - this is the problem, all that's in the music folder is these cds (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 29, 15:57:57
    - To clarify (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 29, 16:04:55
      - no, I have all my music on an external drive (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 29, 16:09:16
        
        So you now have *one* set of music files located on an external drive? (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 29, 16:16:06
        
        PC, yes, 1 itunes is perfect. The other contains all the same music (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 29, 16:18:18
        
        On the perfect PC what files and folders do you have in (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 29, 16:22:40
        
        Oh fucking hell - stupid fucking message board strips out the back slashes (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 29, 16:31:49

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