[dndog]

How can I store my iTunes movies on my external drive but my music on the internal drive of my MBP?

I can't find a setting to change where iTunes finds its sources files...it always copies them onto the internal drive of my laptop.

[dndog]

Anyone???

[gperks]

That's what I've started doing.

Hold Alt while you launch iTunes and create a library on the external drive. In Preferences, change the import directory to be on the external drive. Then add your movies (you'll have to browse to the old files on your internal drive) to the new library.

Seems like you can change the Preferences folder back to the default and each library will remember where it should save files, but I need to try that some more.

You can switch between libraries by hold Alt again when launching iTunes.

Videos are just too big for internal notebook drives!

I hope iTunes gains the ability to have auxiliary library files on removable media.

[jyunderwood]

With iTunes 7 Most TV Shows are in the folder TV Shows in the iTunes Music folder and Movies in a folder called Movies in the same folder. This only works if you let itunes manage your files for you. you can turn off file management and just throw the files anywhere.

Move those folders to an external hard drive and then create an alias to each in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music

This will keep all your TV Shows and Movies anywhere else. though music videos sill will be in your music folder because they are organized by artist.

[gperks]

That's a great idea. I may switch to that scheme.

[dndog]

Originally Posted by jyunderwood 

With iTunes 7 Most TV Shows are in the folder TV Shows in the iTunes Music folder and Movies in a folder called Movies in the same folder. This only works if you let itunes manage your files for you. you can turn off file management and just throw the files anywhere.

Move those folders to an external hard drive and then create an alias to each in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music

I tried this out, and it didn't work. As soon as I disconnected the external and then reconnected it and opened iTunes, it could not find the movie files automatically despite the alias located in the iTunes music folder.

This only works if you let itunes manage your files for you. you can turn off file management and just throw the files anywhere.

How can you turn off file management?

[dndog]

Anyone? I still can't get the previous solution to work.

[gperks]

Somewhere in Preferences there's a "Copy files to folder" setting or similar. I guess that's the one.

Shame about the soft link not working :-(

[Phil333]

Bump since I'm trying to do the same thing. I want to move all the TV Shows I've downloaded to an External HD and have iTunes recognize that it should grab files from 2 places. Is that possible?

[dndog]

Bump again.

I am still interested in this (as are many other users).

Does anybody know?