Thanks, I'll try that and let you know what happens. My Mac is a little too slow to watch a video from iTunes anyway. It stresses my little 800mhz a little too much. Maybe it's time to start thinking about a retirement party for the iBook. . . Rather sad. It's been to something like 21 countries. On Jan 25, 2006, at 8:03 AM, Carl Wimmer wrote:
> Eric: > > Try copying your entire iTunes library to the external HD. Then > redirect iTunes to the new library via Preferences. See if your > iPod will sync to the new library (mine does, but it's a firewire > connection, not USB.) This can free up your iBook of a lot of space > if you have a large music collection. Obviously this is done by > deleting your iTunes library on the iBook. > > Remember that without your external drive, you no longer have music/ > videos. If you only use your iPod for playback or only view/listen > while at home, no problem. > > ctw > > On Jan 24, 2006, at 9:40 PM, Eric Hammond wrote: > >> I have a 160 gig external with a ibook G3 and I';m running 10.4.4. >> On Jan 24, 2006, at 9:25 PM, Carl Wimmer wrote: >> >>> Eric: >>> >>> You can move your iTunes library to an external HD, then change >>> the location in iTunes>Preferences>Advanced. However, when I >>> tried to sync my iPod Photo to the iPhoto library on another >>> drive, never could. Had to move that library back to user/home/ >>> pictures/iphoto for proper syncing. How large is your external >>> HD? Is this a G4 iBook? OS X version? >>> >>> ctw >>> >>> On Jan 24, 2006, at 7:43 PM, Eric Hammond wrote: >>> > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
