on 2013-12-21 12:06 Andy Lee wrote
How do the proposed solutions compare when the other drive is unmounted?
my experience with the no symlinks, no aliases approach: i have a home server with iTunes Media folder pointed at an external volume; all the music is there, but all the movies are on a different external volume; "Copy files to iTunes Media folder" is turned off; on a few occasions one of these external volume has become dismounted (e.g. bad power supply)
iTunes did report an error if i tried to play something was unavailable; i don't recall whether there was a message or just the exclamation point "track missing" symbol on the track; iTunes still functioned with the media that was available, and it recovered perfectly well upon remounting, even if the drive was put into a different enclosure
in case it matters, this experience has been on OS X 10.7.5 (and earlier), and iTunes 10.x (and earlier); i don't think i've had a drive dismount like this under iTunes 11 yet
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