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Itunes and external hard drives
Posted by tonyhunter on 7 December 2008 - 10:55pm.
I have the ipod classic -80 gb model. I use a laptop which has 80 gb memeory. So if I were to fill the ipod I would have little left for anything else. This is increasingly likely as I use the larger file sizes of apple lossless conversion rather than those beastly MP3s .
The solution,I was advised, was to store itunes on an external hard drive. You get an option to store in a different file after you run itu nes.
But everytime I do this i get itunes on the external drive AND in the my music folder on the c drive.Before you know it I am back to getting insuffucient file space messages form the laptop.
Back to square one .
Any solutions?
Tony
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Mmmm
I have my itunes on an external drive
Under advanced in the preferences, the iTunes music folder location should point to the music folder on the external drive, I have keep itunes organised checked but not copy files to itunes music folder.
The only other cause I can think of is to make sure that the hard drive is connected before you open Itunes, if it can't find the external drive, it will default back to the original location.
think that could be it
copying to i tunes folder needs to be unchecked
cheers
80 G
of memory, do you work for Apple, is there something I should know?
ok you got me
120 gb but academic at the moment as that is more than the laptop
A pedant writes...
I think he's alluding to you calling 80GB "memory" when it is in fact hard disk space. As disk space is just "slow memory" that doesn't require power to maintain its data, you can be happy in knowing that you are technically correct, though you'd get some confused looks if you asked for "80Gb of memory" in PC World
Nah...
They'd probably call it that in PC World too!
Try this article
I found this article explained it best....
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-li...
Transferred mine to my external Time Capsule with no problems. As mentioned above, you just need to make sure that the external is connected (and powered on) before launching iTunes as it is "clever" enough to revert to the default location if it cannot find the library.
bingo -right on the money Chrisf
and so current too
manty thanks
tony