[X-Newbies] Mac..Itunes..Ipod..moving music to external drive

[Thomas McDermott Jr]

Good evening,
    Thanks so much for the quick reply..seems easy enough.  Was 
wondering what happens when I don't have external drive attached and am 
traveling...can I buy music from itunes music store and have it sit on 
my powerbook's hd and then copy it to external drive when I get it back 
connected?  Can I leave some music on my powerbook just for listening 
but have the sync'ing only from external drive? 

Thanks




W Lane wrote:

Easy. The Mac should be able to 'see' the PC formatted HD as is. If not, 
use Disk Utility to reformat it to Mac standard (HFS+).  Once having 
done that, create a folder on that HD that you would like your iTunes 
music stored in.  Then, in iTunes prefs>Advanced>General, set your 
iTunes music library location to that folder. I would  then drag the 
entire contents from HD>YourUserName>Music>iTunes>iTunes Music to your 
new folder of choice. From that point on, provided that you make sure to 
have the HD containing your music connected when you plug in the iPod, 
you should be OK.

> On 06-Mar-16, at 8:38 PM, Thomas McDermott Jr wrote:
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>> Good evening,
>>     Am hoping someone..anyone?? could offer some assistance to this 
>> question I have.  I have a powerbook that has a 40 gig hard drive and 
>> most of that is being used for music for my ipod.  I have an external 
>> drive that was formatted for use on my PC that I would like to 
>> somehow reformat to copy over my music files from my itunes on my 
>> mac.  Would then like to, when I sync my ipod, copy from whats on the 
>> external drive instead of whats on my powerbook.  Does that make 
>> sense??  I am just not sure how any of that gets done..mostly, how do 
>> I get my ipod and or itunes to look on my external drive instead of 
>> my powerbook's HD?  If that is easy to do..is it even possible to 
>> leave some music on powerbook for when I travel but not have the ipod 
>> sync from there?
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