Guide: Share your iTunes library between Mac OS X and Windows

[Tomeee]

exact same issue here.

 

This seems like a slip up by Apple Developers.

 

Why do we need to recreate the .xml upon each OS switch -- thats rediculous.

 

 

iTunes Library.itl.xml should be the same as iTunes Library.xml

 

and Itunes should recognize the itl extension as a default one on Mac.

 

Why complicate things like they have? Why wait 5 full minutes for Itunes to "Update" each time you switch OS?

[failurbydesign]

In fact, Thunderbird is more easy to share.

 

1- Put your thunderbird profile folder in a shared drive/partition (fat32)

2- in Windows open Thunderbird profile manager, an create an account. Make sure to point this user to the folder you copy in step 1. Open Thunderbird, check everthing is ok.

3- Close Thunderbird, and rename the profile folder to anything you want. (if the folder is named "name" rename it to "name1".

4- in the same folder you have "name1" create another one named "name". (the original name of you folder profile).

5- Boot OSX. Run thunderbird profile manager. Create the same account, an point it to the empty folder you create in step 3. Open the profile, an create one account in it.

6- Close Thunderbird. Delete the empty folder an restore the name to the original one.

7- Enjoy Thunderbird in both OSes!!!

 

 

Thats so confusing...is there another way?