In an effort to keep my wife's web surfing and email separate from my own, I would like to set up a separate user account for her. However, we currently share one iPhoto library and one iTunes library for all our photos and music.
I would like to share these libraries along with all the albums/playlists in them on both user accounts. I understand that only one user can have the application active at a time (at least with iPhoto), but the idea is that any additions/deletions/changes appear to both users by sharing both the files as well as the library file.
From what I have read in the following OS X Hints threads: Share an iPhoto library among multiple users, Allow shared write access to any directory, and Set the global umask default value, there are a few ways it can be done. However I am not too familiar with Terminal and wasn't sure the best way to do it. Not to mention some of the instructions seemed a bit unclear, maybe b/c I don't use terminal.
I would prefer to leave the iPhoto and iTunes libraries where they are and give the 2nd user access to them/point their accounts to those locations one they are shared and permissions are set. - which seems to be how the 2nd hint works. I also thought I might achieve the same thing using TinkerTool to allow access and set read/write ability, but have not used that either. Ideally I would probably also add the iMovies folder as well so that we both have access to the iMovie files.
I am currently on 10.4 but plan to upgrade to 10.5 in the next week.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
I am not sure how subfolders/inheriting attributes from parent are affected especially with the creation of new folders i.e. new artists/albums, new photos of folders or how this process affects already existing libraries.
I would like to share these libraries along with all the albums/playlists in them on both user accounts. I understand that only one user can have the application active at a time (at least with iPhoto), but the idea is that any additions/deletions/changes appear to both users by sharing both the files as well as the library file.
From what I have read in the following OS X Hints threads: Share an iPhoto library among multiple users, Allow shared write access to any directory, and Set the global umask default value, there are a few ways it can be done. However I am not too familiar with Terminal and wasn't sure the best way to do it. Not to mention some of the instructions seemed a bit unclear, maybe b/c I don't use terminal.
I would prefer to leave the iPhoto and iTunes libraries where they are and give the 2nd user access to them/point their accounts to those locations one they are shared and permissions are set. - which seems to be how the 2nd hint works. I also thought I might achieve the same thing using TinkerTool to allow access and set read/write ability, but have not used that either. Ideally I would probably also add the iMovies folder as well so that we both have access to the iMovie files.
I am currently on 10.4 but plan to upgrade to 10.5 in the next week.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
I am not sure how subfolders/inheriting attributes from parent are affected especially with the creation of new folders i.e. new artists/albums, new photos of folders or how this process affects already existing libraries.