Bob: I followed your directions to get my music library onto my new LaCie external hard drive - everything works like a charm and iPod still updates automatically. Your help made my life a lot easier. Thanks! Deb Hagen On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 10:05 AM, Robert Esser wrote: > Usually its not iTunes (~24 MB) itself but the music library that > uses so much space. Move your iTunes folder from your Music folder in > your home directory to the new partition. And then put an alias of > your iTunes (drop the ‘alias’ suffix on the file name) folder back > into the Music folder in your home directory. iTunes will then > automatically pick up your music library via the alias. > > Works for me. Hopefully for you too. > > Bob