Hi David, On Wednesday, Novr 21, 2007, at 01:32PM, David Poehlman wrote: >Hi Esther, > >I wonder, if you consolidate your library and one of the drives is not >connected, how does it get consollidated? >
If the drive is not connected, those tracks probably don't get consolidated. I'd guess that the files remain in their old locations and are only playable when that drive is connected. Some of this is described in: Managing your iTunes Library on an External Hard Drive at ilounge: http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to-a-new-hard-drive/ The site has lots of images, so you want to sent the page to TextEdit to read the article. Cheers, Esther >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Esther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by >theblind" <discuss@macvisionaries.com> >Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 4:14 PM >Subject: Re: itunes and external hard drive > > >Hi Penny and others, > >On Wednesday, Nov 21, 2007, at 10:48AM, Penny Stevenson wrote: >>Hi Jed, >>I have all my music on my external hard drive. I have my iTunes >>library set to my external drive so when my drive is not connected - >>that music can't play. >>I find this to be quite a good way of getting around it - when I add >>music to my external drive it is updated in iTunes, no space wasted on >>my internal HD >>I set my iTunes library destination in the preferences menu. > >A number of people use Penny's solution of setting their iTunes >library to their external hard drive. You set the library location >in the iTunes preferences on the general tab of the Advanced >menu (if this hasn't changed). The first entry lets you set the >default location for your iTunes Music folder. This is the default >location for your music files, if you have "Copy files to iTunes Music >folder when adding to library" checked. This solution works best >for people who are using desktop Macs, since the files are only >accessible when the external hard drive is connected. > >You can also change the default library iTunes Music library >location to a different external hard drive if your original >hard drive fills up. Also, if the new external hard drive is larger, using >the "Consolidate Library" command under the Advanced menu >will move all files that were stored in other locations, such as >the original external hard drive, into whatever the current >setting is for the default iTunes Music Library location. > >Cheers, > >Esther > > > > >
