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About iTunes library files

We constantly tell you to back up your iTunes Library and iTunes Music Library.xml files when mucking with your iTunes library, but what are these things?

Combine multiple iCal calendarsLearn a simple way to combine multiple iCal calendars into one new calendar.
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About iTunes library files
We constantly tell you to back up your iTunes Library and iTunes Music Library.xml files when mucking with your iTunes library, but what are these things?
Combine multiple iCal calendars
Learn a simple way to combine multiple iCal calendars into one new calendar.
Buying Macs to run Windows
Your company plans to purchase hundreds of Macs so you can use Outlook. Huh?
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Sound off in specific applications
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Manage your iTunes library
You probably have a lot of stuff in your iTunes library. Music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and audiobooks can easily add up to thousands of files. iTunes is both a media player and a database, and it’s the latter feature that helps you organize all these files.
View event info in 10.5 iCal’s Dashboard widget
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Directly accessing the Downloads folder
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Recording acoustic, electric guitar into your Mac
Jim Dalrymple’s album-recording project continues, as he experiments with finding the right acoustic and electric sounds and recording them on his Mac.
Change Firefox 3’s URL bar behavior
Change the way Firefox 3 behaves when you click in the URL bar.
A file selection trick for Finder windows
Learn how to navigate a Finder window based on filename sorting, even if you’re viewing the folder with another sort order.
iTunes' Visualizer tricks
You needn't leave Visualizer's psychedelic grasp to perform a variety of common iTunes tasks.