Wow, 10TB? How many drives was that? I want to go about this the second way, I just want to make sure I put the media there properly. So do I move the library and then drop the media in there? Or do I just delete the directory, redirect the source, and let iTunes do the rest? Thanks for your informative answer. My main point for doing this is so my iTunes library is ready when my apple TV arrives. This is the only device missing from my Apple collection.
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim Kilburn Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2012 7:40 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: iTunes Library location? Hi, There's two ways of approaching this. First is to leave the media where it is and let iTunes simply mark where everything is in its Library Database file. In theory, this could be accomplished by first going to iTunes Prefs in the Advanced pane and unchecking the box that tells iTunes to Copy items to the iTunes Media folder. Next, you would go under the File menu and choose "Add to Library" (cmd-o), navigate to the external HD where all your media is, then pressing the Open button on the parent directory of all the media on that drive. The only issue with this method is that I seem to recall that iTunes does not always pay attention to that preference when your importing from external HDs. If it works as this plan suggests though, you'd have everything accessible to iTunes and all your devices with only the Database file residing on the Mac's internal HD. In the second option, you'll need to create either a new iTunes Library on that external HD or move your existing iTunes folder over to that external HD. In this case, when you add the media to iTunes, it will copy everything into the iTunes folder and place them all into the proper locations that iTunes needs in order to work properly and properly share with the Apple TV and other iDevices. This is the method that I use myself. The only problem could be that iTunes will try to copy all your media into the new iTunes media location. If you have enough space on your external HD to handle multiple copies of the media during this Library creation process, then you'll be OK. If you do not, you will need to be creative with where you put media prior to this process so that only one copy of the files are on your external HD. I did this myself by making sure that the drive was first empty then created an iTunes Library folder onto it. I then spent time placing portions of my media on other drives, essentially dividing it up prior to iTunes building the Library. Then when I added the media to iTunes, it copied items to the new iTunes Library location and placed everything where iTunes needed it to be. I did have the advantage of having 10 TB of HD space to play with so moving things around was possible. Hope that this sort of makes sense, it does to me but I'm the writer so that's expected. Good luck. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-12-08, at 3:37 PM, Kliphton <kliph...@gmail.com> wrote: 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 Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
