Hi Cliphton,
You don't have to move all Media into the iTunes Media folder and you don't have to change the location of your iTunes library in iTunes settings, either. You can simply add Media stored on an external drive to your iTunes library by adding the folder where the media is stored. For example, I have about 25 Gb of music which I keep on my laptop and in the iTunes Media folder on my main hard drive. But since my main drive is a solid state drive which is only 120 Gb, I don't keep my movies on it. I have them on a D-Link network attached storage device. In order to have them in my iTunes library I just go into iTunes and then in the File menu I go to "Add Folder to Library". I browse to the folder on my external drive and select it. This adds all the movies and TV series I have in there to the appropriate library and I can play them on my laptop or, via Home Sharing, on my Apple TV. The only disadvantage is that I don't have access to these files when I am away and not connected to my home network, but since I typically don't watch movies when I am not at home that is not a big deal. You could of course use something like a Western Digital external USB 3.0 hard drive which you can get in up to 3 TB and they even have the My Passport series which are USB powered and are very portable. I prefer just pointing to various folders on external drives because this way the actual location of my iTunes library doesn't change and I can keep some media and stuff like apps and ringtones on the laptop and just put the larger media files on an external drive. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kliphton Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2012 2:40 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: iTunes Library location? Okay. I have over 3TB of media. Of course I don't have that much space on my mac. But how do I tell iTunes to point to this location so it will play this media from my apple TV and when I want to add stuff to my iPhone, iPad, or iPod? I looked at the iTunes folder, and I see that it has a media folder. Do I move this folder to the drive destination, and then put the media in here separated by music and videos? Thanks in advance! Kliphton Senior (Email&iMessage) kliph...@gmail.com (Twitter&Skype) kliphton72 (Personal blog-read at your own risk!) http://kliphskorner.wordpress.com <http://kliphskorner.wordpress.com/> (Life Journal) kliphton.wordpress.com (face book) http://facebook.com/kliphandsharrie -- 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.
