Hi, a couple of points to note. If you sync your device with iTunes and a file can't be found on the PC, iTunes doesn't delete the music from your phone, so you are quite safe there. Second, a critical setting governing iTunes behaviour in this regard is Found in Preferences, Advanced. There's a checkbox called "copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library". I've been using iTunes since 2005 so the default may have been changed, but for me, that was checked by default. So if you're going to add a large amount of stuff from an external drive, and it won't fit on your iTunes Media folder, you may like to disable this. You can also set your iTunes Media folder to be on an external drive. iTunes will use that when the external drive is available, and the default on your C drive when it's not. Jonathan
_____ From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Thanh Vinh Sent: Sunday, 18 November 2012 11:44 a.m. To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Do music files need to reside within iTunes to be transferred to iPhone? Hi, if you do adding all of this music into iTunes library and do adding all of it into your iPhone while your external hard disk where the music stored is currently plugged in the computer, the task will be completed successfully. However, in the next time you sync your iPhone, it will alert you that some data (this is music in this case) is not available and I’m not sure if the music that you’ve already synced on your iPhone will be lost or not.. Because of that, you should copy what you want to sync to your computer before adding to iTunes library and syncing it with your iPhone. There’s a setting called Copy Files To ITunes Media Folder When Add Them To Library that you can find in the advance tab in preferences and you can choose it to keep your datas on-hends. Good luck! Jimmy Vinh Nguyen (Nguyễn Thành Vinh) Primary email: <mailto:nguyenthanhvin...@gmail.com> nguyenthanhvin...@gmail.com Facebook: <http://www.facebook.com/jimmy.vinh.nguyen94> http://www.facebook.com/jimmy.vinh.nguyen94 Cell: (+84)/(0) 16 5551 5557; (+84)/(0) 929 176 557 (alternate) Yahoo MSGR.: nguyenthanhvinh1992 Skype: thanhvinh94 From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D. Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2012 4:20 AM To: 'viphone@googlegroups.com' Subject: Do music files need to reside within iTunes to be transferred to iPhone? Hi, Sorry if this is an extremely basic question, but I’m still trying to come to an understanding. If I have music files in a music folder on an external hard drive connected to my PC, and I connect my iPhone to my PC iTunes, is it possible to transfer these music files on the external hard drives, through iTunes to my iPhone? Or, must I first transfer the desired music files from the external hard drive to the iTunes Media Folder, then connect my iPhone to my PC iTuens to complete the transfer? If it can be done the first way, could you please outline the steps to do that? Thanks in advance. Keith -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
