Hi Alex, If ever you forget to connect your drive, iTunes will create a new, blank iTunes library located in ~/Library/Music. This is a bit of a pain to resolve, but you can simply exit iTunes, re-connect your drive, and re-launch it with the OPTION KEY held down. At that point you’ll have the option to choose which iTunes library to open, and you can select the one on your external HD again.
Cheers, Grant On Oct 25, 2014, at 4:18 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: Thanks again for all your help. Things seem to be working just fine now, and I was able to erase the applications. I just wonder what will happen when I try to use iTunes but forget to plug in my drive. <smile> Until I can get tons if iCloud or Dropbox storage, this is a great way to do things, and now I know how to move my library around in the future. > On Oct 23, 2014, at 6:18 PM, Grant Hardy <grantha...@outlook.com > <mailto:grantha...@outlook.com>> wrote: > > Sounds correct to me. > > The files in the Mobile Applications folder are simply iOS apps that you can > sync to an iDevice rather than having to re-download from the App Store all > the time. iTunes treats apps like any other kind of media. So, for example, > you could do the following: > 1. Open iTunes and navigate to the Apps section with CMD+7. > 2. Select the “My apps” radio button, if it isn’t selected already. > 3. Navigate to the apps grid, select all, and delete. Be sure you really > don’t want to keep these apps on your computer. iTunes will tell you that the > apps will not be deleted from an iOS device that syncs with the computer. > 4. Now you should be able to safely remove the Mobile Applications folder. > > Please let us know how this goes. > > Grant > > On Oct 21, 2014, at 6:11 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com > <mailto:mehg...@icloud.com>> wrote: > > Thanks. So, to be sure I have the process right: > > 1. Move the entire library to somewhere iTunes can write to (by copying it > out of the Time Machine location). > 2. Open iTunes with the Option key held down, and browse to my newly copied > library folder. > 3. Locate the apps folder from within iTunes and erase the apps. How do I do > this? > 4. I'm now safe to backup, sync, or restore my iOS devices, and all my music > should work fine. > > Right? I appreciate the help! >> On Oct 21, 2014, at 5:21 PM, Grant Hardy <grantha...@outlook.com >> <mailto:grantha...@outlook.com>> wrote: >> >> If the applications folder is empty, it can be safely removed. If it is not >> empty, I would recommend removing all the apps from within the iTunes UI >> first, otherwise all those apps will still show up in your library but >> iTunes will not be able to locate them. >> >> As for synchronization and backups, that should not be messed up in any way. >> Backups are not stored in your iTunes folder, and may safely be removed at >> any time. iTunes will simply do a full backup rather than an incremental one >> if it cannot find any previous backups when backing up an iOS device. >> >> Grant >> >> On Oct 20, 2014, at 7:00 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com >> <mailto:mehg...@icloud.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> I am about to copy over my old iTunes library, but I have one more question. >> I've already synced my iPhone with iTunes a few times. Will this mess up any >> syncing moving forward, or restoring encrypted backups, or anything? >> Similarly, since I never use them, can I replace or get rid of the Mobile >> Applications folder in the old library? >> >> -- >> Have a great day, >> Alex Hall >> mehg...@icloud.com <mailto:mehg...@icloud.com> >> >> -- >> 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 >> <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. >> >> >> -- >> 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 >> <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > mehg...@icloud.com <mailto:mehg...@icloud.com> > > -- > 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 > <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > 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 > <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com <mailto:mehg...@icloud.com> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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