<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">You could hold the option key whenever you launch iTunes. This gives you a dialogue<div>box allowing you to choose the iTunes library.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't know about consolidating your library.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 23, 2008, at 10:12 AM, list boy wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">OK.<div><br></div><div>Have a 2003 Aluminum Powerbook (1.5 GB RAM, 10.4.11)</div><div><br></div><div>I have designated iTunes to locate its Music folder location on an external firewire drive that I connect to wirelessly at home. </div><div>But, as you know, when that drive is not mounted on the Powerbook, iTunes will revert back to the default location in my local User folder.</div><div><br></div><div>Is there a way to </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>a) warn me when iTunes has reverted to the default location</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>b) somehow get iTunes to move everything back to the firewire drive once its connected again? -- (would this be where I would do the Consolidate Library maneuver?)</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><br></div></span></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>