On Dec 19, 2013, at 9:41 AM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16 Dec 2013, at 11:48 , Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> My largest subdirectory is Movies, my next largest is Music, and my third >> largest is Pictures. I will definitely have to put at least Movies on the >> second disk, and probably Music as well. > > It can be difficult to move one of the default directories to another > location, so I would be hesitant to do try to move ~/Movies or ~/Music. > > However, it is very easy to put the actual movies in another location, and to > point iTunes to another location, which is what I do. > > I have a few things in ~/Movies (less than 2GB) and almost nothing in Music.
Hi LuKreme, Thanks for the helpful information. I was thinking that maybe I should keep my home directory and all of its default subdirectories on the boot drive, so you (and others) have confirmed that this is probably a good idea. You said that you keep much of the contents of ~/Movies elsewhere and that you point iTunes to another location. I see that in iTunes, under Advanced Preferences, there is a button to click to change the iTunes Media folder location. If I click on that button and enter a new location (on a different disk), do I have to do anything else, ether before or after changing this pointer? Will that change be transparent? What is the best way to keep much of ~/Movies on a different disk, but still have the content appear to be in ~/Movies? Should I use symbolic links for any subdirectories of ~/Movies that I want to keep on another disk? Thanks, Gregg _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
