on 2013-12-16 13:28 Neil Laubenthal wrote
If you just want to move portions of your homedir…then copy them elsewhere and replace the folder (say ~/Movies) with a hard link to the new location. You do this with the ln command from terminal. A hard link is essentially the Unix equivalent of an alias…although I suppose that you could just use an alias instead even though it’s not quite the same. Man ln from terminal will give you all of the gory details on the command.
unless there has been a major (and very surprising) change, hard links by nature cannot refer to other volumes; some other options are to move your entire iTunes library to the other volume, and use Preferences > Advanced to point there; or to delete the media files from iTunes, move them to the remote volume, and drag them back into iTunes (after turning off "Copy files to iTunes Media Folder"); it is also possible to move the files, then edit the paths in the XML version of the iTunes library file and reload this
i last did this a few years ago, and have music and movies on separate, non-boot volumes on my home server; thankfully i haven't needed to mess with it because though there is plenty of info available from those who seem to spend their lives doing it, it is still a pain to move large libraries; among other things you may lose your last played info, and if you rely on iTunes for album art (instead of embedding it in the files), you may lose that too
as i recall, iTunes does not especially like aliases, nor symbolic links, but if you are using something else to play your media, one of these may work
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