> I have an 8600 upgraded to a G3/300 running OS 10.2.8 on a 4GBBarracuda HD. I have OS 9 running on a 4GB Apple HD. The OSX drive is full, and there is about 3.5GB available on the OS9 drive. I am trying to copy a 3GB file of iTunes from my G4 to the 8600 which is connected to my stereo to act as a "Juke Box". Is there a way to have the songs on the OS9 drive and play them with the iTunes on the OSX drive? I guess what I am trying to figure out is if there is a way to make OSX see the 2-4GB drives as 1-8GB drive...without having to do a reinstall.
You could set up a symbolic link[1], but why not just change the location of your iTunes music folder in iTunes preferences (under Advanced)?
[1] Move the folder then Open up Terminal.app and type "ln -s /Volumes/OtherDrive/Music Music" to create a symbolic link (similar to an alias, but at a lower level).
Funny - doing similar type of thing last night. As well as Peters suggestion you can always use alias's.
My wife is using my G5 more and more and starting to want to cutomise how it's set up so rather than have arguemements I created a new account for (performance hit on G5 using fast switching is negligable) But as all our pics are under my iPhoto location, music under my itunes and address book, mail etc, etc.
Once you establish where each application gets its prefs from alias to that, and similarly alias the location of that data files and everything seems to work. Except mail which wont look to an alias of mailboxes, but will look to it's .plist alias! Be carefule removing mailboxes before checking if anything doesn't work (even the deleted mailbox from trash can is unreadable)
The only thing you need to do is change ownership privileges for the user account that you are aliasing to otherwise you cannot see the files inside the various directories.
I guess back everything up first. Whilst it seems to work I would also not recommend that both account be using same data files at same time - easiest way to ensure this is to make sure application is only running under one account at a time.
Sorry this was a little off topic for question but thought it worth while sharing my experiences.
Simon
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