Vlad Alexa's Blog » dualboot http://blog.vladalexa.com software , networks , apple , open source Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:38:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 dual boot , one itunes library http://blog.vladalexa.com/2008/07/13/dual-boot-one-itunes-library/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dual-boot-one-itunes-library http://blog.vladalexa.com/2008/07/13/dual-boot-one-itunes-library/#comments Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:17:00 +0000 vlad http://vladalexa.com/wordpress/?p=3 Since i started dual booting either Tiger or Leopard one thing that really annoyed me was that i had to deal with 2 itunes libraries , not being able to have the same thing in itunes no matter what i boot into.

Well there is a very elegant and easy fix for that that i am going to detail in this post and it only requires you to have a extra partition besides the ones that you are booting from.
So let’s get to it (texts in bold are shell commands and should be entered via Terminal):
1 – move your itunes library to a partition you do not boot from (i put mine on the Storage partition)
mv ~/music/iTunes /Volumes/IStorage/
2 – boot into each of the os’es and delete ~/music/iTunes if existing and make a symbolic link to the new location in its place
ln -s /Volumes/IStorage/Itunes/ ~/music/iTunes
This works beautifully and it works at some extent for things like Photo Booth too , also tho it might work i do not advise to make the links with Finder , just stick to console.
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