On Oct 10, 2010, at 9:09 PM, Jean-Claude Touzin wrote:
Hi,
In Panther with iTunes 4.1
With iTunes app on the computer hard drive and iTunes Library copied
on an external hard drive.
How do you say to iTunes to choose the iTunes library that is on the
external HD instead of the one that is on the computer HD? (Computer
HD is chock-full so we need to throw some folders in the garbage
can...)
The ability for iTunes to natively support multiple libraries didn't
come until version 7. Before that, there were some 3rd-party programs
or scripts to deal with this, the one I know of was called iTunes
Library Manager.
The final version of iTunes to work with Panther was 7.7.1, so if you
upgrade your iTunes you should be able to point it at the external
library without hassles. If you have access to any Tiger system to
clone, or an install DVD, I'd recommend getting up to at least Tiger
10.4.11, but that's not required to have iTunes multiple library
support in iTunes 7.7.1.
You should definitely clear out as much free space as possible on any
full HD. Apple recommends 2 GB MINIMUM free space for Panther, and 4
GB MINIMUM for Tiger, which are pretty good numbers. You can sort
files by size using Find and ones above say 50MB or so to get rid of
the largest ones first. You can also use programs like Monolingual to
clear out multiple language resources that you can't read, or even
extra CPU frameworks you can't use.
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