Yeah, I will do that.  Thanks.
Donna
On Feb 4, 2013, at 9:47 AM, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> in that case, I think it was ricardo who gave the advice to uncheck the "add 
> media to iTunes library", or something like that in the iTunes preferences. 
> Then, when you add the movie files to your iTunes library, it'll just make a 
> pointer to them instead of actually copying them over to the iTunes library.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Goodin" <doniado...@me.com>
> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 9:25 PM
> Subject: Re: anyone store the movies in their iTunes library on a portable 
> hard drive?
> 
> 
>> Hi Phil,
>> 
>> Thanks.  I guess I'll just have to try it and see what happens.  What I want 
>> is to continue to keep music on my MBA, but keep movies externally. Sounds 
>> doable, I'll have a go at it and see what happens.
>> Cheers,
>> Donna
>> On Feb 3, 2013, at 5:11 PM, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I have my iTunes library on an external drive and I have several movies 
>>> contained therein.
>>> 
>>> If you disconnect the external drive, and then start iTunes, I believe you 
>>> will be prompted for the location of a library for iTunes to use.
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Goodin" <doniado...@me.com>
>>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
>>> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 5:04 PM
>>> Subject: anyone store the movies in their iTunes library on a portable hard 
>>> drive?
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> I have two questions re the storing of movies in the iTunes library.
>>>> 
>>>> 1.  Is it possible to store them on a portable hard drive?
>>>> 
>>>> 2.  If the answer to No. 1 is yes, if the drive is not connected to your 
>>>> Mac, does that mess up your iTunes library?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for any thoughts or experiences anyone can share.
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Donna
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