ITunes For Mac :: How To Merge Two Libraries From Two Different OS X Accounts
Aug 24, 2014
I'm setting up daughter new MacBook Pro, migrating data from her old white MacBook. We used Migration Assistant to import her apps and documents from the old laptop. Now she has two user accounts: the one she initially set up on the new MacBook Pro, and the old account we brought over from the old machine. And there are iTunes libraries in each of these user accounts -- I believe they're both set up under the same iTunes account. Â
In addition to the two OS X libraries, there's her iPhone, which was synced with the old white MacBook account. Â
So... what's the best way to merge them all into one (duplicate-free) iTunes library on the new MacBook Pro, and switch the iPhone to sync with the new machine?
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Feb 5, 2012
I need to merge 2 iTunes libraries. I have a large iTunes library on a WD 2TB external hard drive from a older computer in which iTunes would play items off the external HD and no iTunes item save on the internal HD. The library consists of music, movies, shows, books, apps, etc. I just recently bought a used 1st gen MacBook Air and without thinking transferred purchases from my iPhone and started syncing with the Air before I thought about the older library on the external HD. Now I have a new, small library on the Air's internal HD and the older, larger library on the external drive.
What I'd like to do is merge the smaller into the larger one and keep the library on the external HD and iTunes read everything from the external HD. With merging the 2 libraries, will it transfer my iPhone stuff as well? (backups, apps, info, etc.) Also, now that my iPhone is synced my Air and no longer synced through my older library, will I have to re-sync it again when the 2 are merged or will it automatically recognize it as already synced to newly merged library? Currently running OS 10.6.8 and iTunes 10.5.2.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Jun 4, 2014
So I have an old Ext. drive and a huge iTunes library on it. I also have a mac mini that I run through the TV.
I'd like to merge the library on the mac mini and have everything run off of the ext drive via one large library. Without losing anything.Â
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MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2013)
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Mar 24, 2012
How can I set up itunes so that two users on the same laptop can each access separate itunes accounts and libraries?Â
My fiancee and I use the same laptop, but both have apple accounts and use ITunes. How can we both access our separate libraries from the same computer?Â
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MacBook
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Apr 23, 2012
Recently when trying managing my AppleID account, I was asked to make my appleID the same as my email. When I tried to do this, I was then told that an appleID by that name already existed. So I then attempted to login using my email address as my appleID. It was then that I realized that I have two separate appleIDs. One I have had for years, and has tons of music associated with it, the other I must have created in the last year when updating my iPhone software version. I have no idea how much of what is associated with the new one, but I think the only way I could find out would be to format my phone and start again. This sounds like a terrible test to conduct on myself.how one can merge two separate appleID accounts
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May 14, 2012
Is it possible to merge two apple accounts?
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Jun 20, 2012
Is there a way to merge two separate iTunes accounts into one? I don't want to "share libraries." I just want one account that once stemmed from two seperate accounts and has all of the purchases and history.
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MacBook (13-inch Aluminum Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Mar 19, 2012
I used one computer to back up my Iphone, then when I got a new Iphone I used another computer. I would like to use the second computer from now on. They both have different information from the phones. I would like to merge the two accounts on the second computer so that all the information is put back onto the new phone.Â
I do not want to erase and replace. The two computers are not connected in any way. I do not have sharing turned on at this time. how to get the information from the first computer to the second computer. Step by step. and also how to merge the two accounts without losing any information.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Apr 2, 2010
I have Time Machine backups of two iPhoto Library files, one of which I've flawlessly copied to my new iMac, everything is in working order and awesome. Now I have an additional iPhoto Library from another computer that I'd like to add.
How should I go about doing this? I fear that if I simply drag-n-drop the Library file into iPhoto I'll get duplicates (the Original/Modified folders) and lose all the albums, etc.
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Sep 24, 2009
Inside my iphoto library my "modified" folder weighs 4GB. Is there a way to fuse both Originals and Modified folders?
And dont need the originals since most of the modification I do my pictures is to change orientation. That way I could save more space.
I love iphoto. I use Aperture, bridge and photoshop for work but for my family pictures, iphoto is great. What makes me nervous about iphoto is the possibillity of losing my 36GB worth of pictures (like HDD dying or the library getting corrupt). I manually backup the iphoto library to an external drive and keep a copy in my imac at work. Does Time machine backs up the iphoto library.
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Mar 5, 2012
I bought a new Macbook Pro and my data did not get migrated over from my old Macbook. I now have 2 accounts on my new macbook because I tried to migrate my data over after creating a new acct. The 2nd acct has all my data on it! Can I merge the two accounts into one?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Apple loyal since 1988
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May 24, 2012
I have 2 different accounts / Names on my Macbook Pro. every one of these has its own special definitions I want to keep. How can I megre these 2 accounts into one?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jun 14, 2012
How do I merge two iCloud accounts into one? One account is on my mac and ipad, the other on my iphone.
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Jun 25, 2012
I have two [URL] accounts. One fairly old me.com account where most of my addresses and stuff are. The other account recently got moved to iCloud (it's part of a me.com family acocunt). I wish to remove the account currently on iCloud and merge it's data back into the [URL]account. But I'm unsure about how to proceed best. I have been burned in the past with this kind of activity, specifically with apple services.Is there a safe way of merging data back and forth between the accounts?
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Several Macs, several PCs, one XServe
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May 11, 2012
I just upgraded to Lion and moved my MobileMe info to the iCloud. Unfortunately, Apple has created two different iCloud accounts. For the primary account, it wants me to create a new .me email address. I want to use my existing one, but it is listed as a non-primary account, and I can't figure out any way to merge the two.
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), iPad2, iPhone 4S
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May 30, 2012
I would like to link two different email addresses to the same apple ID. They were originally set up as two separate accounts.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Mar 11, 2012
I transferred my old mac to a new mac using migration assistant and it created another user account on the new machine. Is there a way to merge the two accounts into one on the new machine?
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Jun 4, 2014
I think i may have two iCloud accounts as i changed my apple id, I don't seem to be able to access the other. How can i see my documents in the cloud .
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iPad
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Aug 29, 2014
Lost my playlists when I tried to share libraries with different accounts on the same MacBook computer ....
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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Apr 12, 2012
I have 2 app store accounts on my mac, how can i merge them? I purchased applications with my me.com e-mail and with my personal e-mail. With updates they ask me to change accounts. I do not know how and I just want to have 1 apple ID...
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3), App Store Apple ID
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Apr 1, 2009
So here is what I'm trying to do, I've got a 160 gb of music in itunes on my macbook pro, but I need to decrease that number, b/c my I'm running out of hard drive space and my library is only getting larger. I want to have it set up so that I've got my entire library on my external hard drive (1 TB, space is not an issue), and while I'm at home I can access the entire library. However, while I'm out of the house, I'd like to only have about half of my current collection with me on my macbook pro..
I tried to set it up using the 'itunes manage multiple libraries' method, but this didn't transfer any of my ratings or playlists. Then I realized that with having these two libraries completely separate, this will be a re-occurring theme. The playlist and ratings between the two separate libraries in two separate locations, would continue to get more and more askew from each other depending on which library I'm accessing when I import new music, change ratings, or modify playlists...........
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Apr 16, 2012
Before moving to a new Mac I backed up my old itunes music library.xml file and manually added all of my music files to itunes on my new mac.Â
Does anybody know a way of getting my old information such as ratings, number of plays etc from the old library into the new one?
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iPad 2, iOS 5.0.1
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Sep 21, 2010
On my G5 Tower, I had two hard drives. HD1 has all my applications & such, while HD2 is larger & contains all my working files. HD2 also was where I was keeping my iTunes Music Library. At some point during an OS 10.5 upgrade, iTunes created a new Music Library on HD1 and began saving all new music & podcasts to that file. It was still recognizing the music in the HD1 disc Library, so I didn't notice this issue for a while. Now I have the new i7 iMac with the 1TB HD. I've pulled everything from the old G5 Tower over via Target Mode, and that captured everything from HD1. Target Mode didn't recognize the HD2, so I copied those files over manually (likely mistake number one).
Once I fired up iTunes on the iMac, it saw the music & stuff from the Music Library on HD1, but there was an exclamation mark on the songs that were from HD2. Went to File > Library > Organize Library & clicked that, but nothing happened. Reading on the Apple Support Forum, I noticed that someone posted about going to Preferences > Advanced > iTunes Media Folder Location, and putting in the location of the older Music Library on HD1. Did that, and then ran Organize Library, but that didn't do much other than mark ALL my songs with an exclamation point (can't find). So at this point, rather than jack things around even more, I'll run this up the flagpole & see if any of you Apple-savvy people has a solution for me. Know I can go into iTunes & do a song-by-song re-link of all the files, but at 9233 items, that would kind of take a while.
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May 21, 2009
I have an iMac and just bought a Seagate 1T expernal hard drive. Currently most of my music is encoded AAC so I can keep it in the imac hard drive and be able to loaded in my iPod 30 Gig.Currently I have about 24 Gig in the library.Since I use my iTunes as music server for my home Hi-Fi systems using a wireless network and Squeezebox devices connected to my steroe system I would like to create a second library with just Apple Lossless files. I would like to use this library for my home listening but keep the current library in the iMac haddrive with the AAC files to sync them to my iPod.
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Apr 11, 2012
I have multiple devices that I want to sync from my one Mac. I decided to go for the multiple library options under my one user account. I have created multiple libraries but the problem I'm finding is that if I buy a new book/app they get placed in finder for that device. Is that a way of keeping this clean and keeping all apps, books etc under the one library in Finder and all the different devices just reading from there?Â
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iMac
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May 13, 2012
Upon opening iTunes this morning, it took upon itself the job of "importing" something from I have no clue, labeled my library as "damaged", created a new one that had most of my stuff missing with no playlists, and now I can't import an old library or open any sort of iTunes library from anywhere.iTunes is version 10.6.1 (7)Is it some sort of version of iTunes that I can't run on OS 10.5? I'm waiting for the fall rollout to get a new machine, there is no reason to update my OS, it does everything I need now.I have a Time Machine backup. Do I need to download a completely new copy of iTunes and then try to restore out of Time Machine? Has Apple updated iTunes into yet another version that has no added value to me, yet I have to cope with all the advertising trash loaded into it (read: Genius, Ping)? How do I get my library back along with a version of iTunes that works?
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May 30, 2012
I recently bought an iMac. I have used my iTunes libary on a PC for years to sync my iPhone and iPad. I am now getting married and would like to know if I can import a seperate iTunes account to the same desktop computer. I would like to be able to sync her iPad and iPhone from her account (mail calander, music, photos and movies as well as her contacts.) and sync my iPhone and iPad from my account. Is this possible or do you get one iTunes acocunt per computer?
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Gateway, Windows Vista
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Jun 14, 2012
so i finally upgraded from my Late 2006 iMac to a MacBook Pro, and i used my WD Passport 1tb drive to get my iTunes off and on the new macbook. except now my iPod Touch wants to sync wirelessly to both Macs (yes i copied the library file). is there any way to seperate the libraries??
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), (Mid 2012)
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Jun 15, 2012
How do I consolidate 6 different iTunes libraries into 1?
Info:PowerBook G4 (15-inch 1.67/1.5 GHz), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Dec 11, 2014
we have just purchased a new IMac and this is our first mac, so we don't know much about them, my hubby and I have 2 pcs each with a separate itunes account, and we want to transfer both of our libraries onto the new mac and merge them together. We also want our individual playlists to transfer across to.
I have brought a new drive to put all the music on and I know I need to export the library, I'm just not sure if I can import two libraries and make them into one on the mac and if it will keep both our playlists.
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iMac with Retina 5K display, iOS 8.1.2
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