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Journal salimma's Journal: HOWTO: Share iTunes on the *same* PC 6

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Some people want to know if they could share their iTunes folder between multiple users on the same PC. It is quite simple if one is used to Unix and using soft links, but for non-Unix types out there, here it is...

Note that the source and destination folders need to be on NTFS volumes. Some XP OEMs bizarrely ship their PCs with FAT32 volumes; convert is your friend.

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    • Stability is probably the key factor; then again, the last computer I personally bought from a major manufacturer was a Dell in 1998, that shipped with four (4) 2 GB partitions, all FAT16.

      It came with Win95 OSR2, and yes, that version's fdisk defaults to asking if you want FAT32 partitions.

      So, overall, the likelier explanation is that some manufacturers' recovery CDs still do not support NTFS. I could be wrong, of course.

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        • Never had the misfortune of NTFS going berserk on me, no; the worse I've had so far are permission problems. Got confused at first until I remembered even an Administrator need to take over ownership before being able to change permissions!

          Sysinternals Freeware [sysinternals.com] is an excellent site for NT freewares though. Process Explorer in particular - it lets you suspend processes, see files they have opened, etc.

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            • so I don't know what to tell him

              Ideally, something like you have backups, right? - but I feel uncomfortable preaching what I don't really practice :). Oh, I do backup home folders (C:\Documents and Settings), but being lazy I just do it to another partition.

              Beware of using Partition Magic on NTFS partitions. A friend of mine managed to wreck his XP that way. Mandrake's installer claims to support shrinking NT partitions, I just hope they know what they're doing..

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