[Ti] iTunes and drive space

[JPE]

If you split them over two drives, you will  have to turn off the 
"consolidate library" otherwise iTunes will copy them back into the 
main iTunes folder.

On Jan 21, 2004, at 5:16 PM, David wrote:

> On 1/21/04 4:29 PM, "Bob Bergey" <rb at dprint.com> wrote:
>
>> I got an iPod (40GB) for Christmas and love it ... but I'm struggling
>> with a new issue -- particularly running out of space on my TiBook. I
>> have a 60GB drive in it, partitioned to three drives, but between
>> music and digital photos, I'm running out of space. Can iTunes access
>> music on a partition other than the startup, or better yet, access
>> music split over two partitions?
>>
> Sure. iTunes lets you put the music where you want it. Let's say you 
> have
> partitions named One, Two, and Three. Currently your home directory is 
> on
> One and that's where your iTunes music is. Further, let's imagine you 
> want
> to have your music on Two in a folder called Music.
>
> Go to the preferences of iTunes and change your default folder to 
> Music on
> Two. Any new music you rip will be placed there but all your old tunes 
> will
> remain on drive One. That's fine and iTunes will be quite happy to 
> have your
> tunes split between the two drives.
>
> Perhaps you want to move all your Iggy Pop tunes over to drive Two. Go 
> ahead
> and drag them over then delete them from drive One. Now you have a 
> small
> problem. iTunes thinks they are on drive One but they aren't. The 
> simple
> solution is to drag the Iggy Pop folder (which is now on drive Two) 
> onto
> your iTunes library window and iTunes will now know where they are. The
> downside to this is you'll have to manually add them back to any other
> playlists you have.
>
> Cheers
> david
>
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