Hi Søren,
SJ: Last time I tried to open a whole folder in ITunes, something
very anoying happend: I opened the folder from my external harddrive
by selecting all files in the folder, and I pressed command o to
open it. Then I unplugged my harddrive, I saw all the music I opened
from the folder was copied into the ITunes folder on my internal
harddrive. Now I'm a bit afraid to use ITunes, because it's not my
own Mac computer, so I don't want to put my own files on it. I'm
wandering why ITunes just copied the files to the internal
harddrive. If someone can explain this, I'll begin to use ITunes
again. I'm sure I didn't hit any copy buttons...
Mac is great, but sometimes it does weird things.
TK: Two ways you can get around this. First is to change the
location of your iTunes Library to a folder on the external drive.
Then it won't copy things to the internal one. There is also the
preference option under the Importing tab of the Advanced pane of
iTunes Preferences where you can tell iTunes how to handle that sort
of thing. The only issue with that one though is that I'm pretty sure
that iTunes will still copy things when they are coming from an
external drive, if they were resident on the internal then it would
leave them alone. It is still better to play things from within
itunes instead of playing them from the Finder though. Hope this
helps some.
Later...
