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 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.