You're going to run out of money in theory before you ever need to
worry about an iTunes library getting too big. I have 11,000 items in
my library right now including movies, music and podcasts. So, its
huge, about 60GB or so. Most Mac computers these days come with a
large enough drive that you should not have problems. However, you
could choose to use an external drive and just need to move the
library and point it to the appropriate iTunes library and source file.
The greatest bit of advice I can give you is to stay organized and
then have the library backed up. Try to come up with play lists that
you know you might like and then update them as you purchase new
music. Once you get 10,000 tunes in your library, creating extensive
play lists becomes a serious task.
You should really either have an online and or external, off site back-
up option at all times. As you spend money on your library your
investment grows. I know a lot of people who have a backup of their
library on an external drive in the same room or home/office as their
computer. That's not smart. You need to have something entirely off
site be it an external drive you leave somewhere else or an online
solution. You ned something though. Imagine loosing hundreds of
dollars in music in addition to other computer file losses.
On Sep 14, 2008, at 1:02 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote:
Dear All,
The rate at which I have been buying/importing music and audiobooks
in my Itunes makes me ask the question what happens when I run out
of space. I know from what's been said on the list that many of you
have extensive music collections and audiobooks and DVD's too. I
will probably want to have the latter too. So how can I get ready to
deal with it in as simple a way as possible when I reach such a point?
Any tips and suggestions would be appreciated. I guess an obvious
thing that occurs to me would be to get a huge terabyte external
drive but I need to learn how to run my Itunes successfully and
efficiently from such a drive.
With best wishes
Simon
