On Jul 29, 2008, at 7:01 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
DP: If I am understanding you correctly, once I create the library, I
neeed to
move it to the drive before I access it?
SS: Well that's the part I'm not really sure of. I just created the
library on my mac volume, in the itunes folder where the standard
library gets created. I then added files from the other drive, but
iTunes started copying them all over to the iTunes folder. I verified
that the box for copying files to the itunes location was unchecked
and still had the same issue. My guess is that you need to create the
library on the external drive -- you can specify where the library
should be at the time of creation, however, I haven't found anything
to back this up.
I'll play around with this a bit tonight as I really would love to
have my external drive files in a library. I'll let you know what I
find.
Steve
Thanks!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven M. Sawczyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X
by
theblind" <discuss@macvisionaries.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: pointing ITunes to a drive:
Are you wanting to create a separate iTunes library for the external
drive? If yes, hold down option while launching iTunes and you'll be
given a dialog in which you can create, or choose a library. Now,
here's the trick. I find that, although I have the option to copy
files to my iTunes folder unchecked, iTunes copies files if I start
adding to a library from an external drive. My thought, which I've
not been able to prove or disprove yet is that the library has to
exist on the same volume as the songs you're importing, otherwise,
they get copied. The various how-tos on the subject don't discuss
this specifically, however.
If you've created a new library, simply hold down option while
launching iTunes and you can switch back and forth. If I find a way
to import without getting iTunes to attempt to copy all the files,
I'll let you know. Who knows, maybe it'll just work for you and you
won't get errors saying that you're out of drive space like I did. :)
HTH,
Steve
On Jul 29, 2008, at 5:36 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
Hi,
I know this should be simple, but I've got a drive full of folders I'd
like
to access through ITunes. is it as simple as ad to library or is there
another technique I need to use?
Thanks!
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