We’re back with another edition of Ask TUAW. This time around we’ve answering questions about iTunes libraries, Mac data recovery, Snow Leopard on older Macs and more.

As always, your suggestions and questions are welcome. Questions for next week should be left in the comments. When asking a question please include which machine you’re running and which version of Mac OS X (we’ll assume you’re running Leopard on an Intel Mac if you don’t specify). And now, on to the questions.

Daneel asks:

I’m running OS X 10.5.7 and Windows Vista (via Bootcamp) on my iMac 24″. I was wondering if there was any way in which I could make the iTunes apps in both Windows and Mac use the same iTunes library. File access is not a problem as I’ve got the ntfs-3g driver on the mac side and mac drive on the PC side.

I have my iTunes library on an external hard drive. To make iTunes use this particular folder, I create an alias of the folder on the external drive and replace my iTunes folder located in Users> “User Name” > Music with the alias. iTunes has no problem with this setup.

You should be able to do the same thing in both the Mac and Windows versions of iTunes. Just set an alias of the iTunes folder you want to use in Windows pointing to your Mac iTunes library and you should be good to go.

Ask TUAW: iTunes libraries, Mac data recovery, Snow Leopard on older Macs and more originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Ask TUAW: iTunes libraries, Mac data recovery, Snow Leopard on older Macs and more originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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