changing formats

[ecirwin at mac.com]

Sorry to tell you this Terry, but you are completely wrong about where 
iTunes files can reside.  You should put all your files on the external 
drive.  That is where my 14GB of data for iTunes is.  Laptop drives 
just aren't big enough to handle that much, or at least they weren't 
2.5 years ago.  In Preferences/Advanced you can tell iTunes where your 
library is.  Make a folder on your external drive and point iTunes to 
it.  The go under the Advanced drop down menu in iTunes and pick 
Consolidate Library.  iTunes should copy all your files to the external 
drive.  It will not erase the originals, just make a copy.  You then 
might want to make a few random checks in your library to see where the 
files are with command-R, just to make sure they are on the external 
drive.  Then you can erase all your music/book files from your local 
drive.  Don't do this move in the Finder because you will lose all the 
references to files and playlist data will be lost.  Too much work to 
think about.  After all that, you are now ready to start converting 
those AIFF files to AAC as we discussed before.

Eric

On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 08:25  PM, iTunesList wrote:

>  Thanks Eric. I am trying to do it. the only trouble I'm having is 
> hangs
> on to the AIFF file until the AAC is made and it won't complete the AAC
> because it's telling me the dic is full. I have deleted some stuff but
> it's still squawking. I really would like to be able to move iTunes to
> my external hard drive which is huge but my understanding is itunes
> must be on the boot drive.
> terry
>
> On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 02:09  PM, ecirwin at mac.com wrote:
>