[iTunes] iTunes folder on another partition

[James Knight]

You can replace the iTunes folder with an alias to the one on your other
partition

Or you can turn off the option for copying the songs to the iTunes folder
(advanced tab in preferences)

HTH

James



-- 
James Knight
Norwich, UK

james at twoknight.com

on 27/4/03 11:18 am, S. Moussly at smoussly at ebla.com.kw wrote:

> 
> While I'm at it, I have a question in regards to the iTunes music
> folder. I just recently had a very bad experience with my OS X crashing
> and having to backup all my documents and music onto CDs, since I only
> had one partition on my hard drive (had to learn my lesson the hard
> way). 
> 
> I finally reinstalled OS X on a separate partition, and have all my data
> on another. The thing is, when you import music from your data partition
> to iTunes, it saved a copy of the songs in the iTunes music folder that
> is located under the OS X partition (~/Music/iTunes). Which in this
> case, I will have two copies of each song on my hard drive. Is there a
> way where you can have only one iTunes folder on a different partition?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Sam
> 
> 
> 
> 
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