iTunes on external

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I came up with this idea yesterday. Since the hard drive on my laptop is only 81gig and my iPod is an 80gig, if I were to fill it up, that would only leave me with a gig of space on my computer. Well, I have a 250gig external hard drive that I was thinking I could store all of my music on as well as run iTunes off of. The only problem is I have no idea of how to do this. If it is possible, I would greatly appreciate some help.
 
I'm on the PC at the moment, so I can't check iTunes, but isn't there an option in Preferences where you could set your library to another directory (folder)?

Put all of your music on the external drive and set it as your music library.
 
would that automatically transfer all of my current library to that directory or would I have to move it some other way? BTW, my laptop isnt a mac, its a Sony Vaio

Edit: yes there is a way to change the directory but I still dont know if that will move all of my current library
 
dougiemeats
I'm on the PC at the moment, so I can't check iTunes, but isn't there an option in Preferences where you could set your library to another directory (folder)?

Put all of your music on the external drive and set it as your music library.
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Bingo 👍

The only thing is, you must make sure that you don't open iTunes when you haven't got your HDD plugged in. If you do that and try to play your library, you'll find hundreds of "cannot find" messages. You just have to re-add them all from the HDD, but it could be arduous if you've organised them into loads of different folders.

Boz Mon
would that automatically transfer all of my current library to that directory or would I have to move it some other way? BTW, my laptop isnt a mac, its a Sony Vaio

Edit: yes there is a way to change the directory but I still dont know if that will move all of my current library
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It won't move it, no. You have to do that yourself. Just move your current folder called "iTunes music" from my music to your hard drive, then change the folder in iTunes it's self. That way, all your future music will be sent there too.
 
Makes sense. Jon, check your pm's.

Edit: so basically I have to move the music FIRST then change the file path? and all should be good?
 

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