Yup. I'm not sure how else it could behave. If it can't find the NAS it
has to go somewhere to get its track list and generally users will want
iTunes to keep setting that work rather than ones which fail. So opening
iTunes without the NAS will fail and iTunes will 'fix' it for you by
going back to your local drive. That said, you could make an alias to
the NAS in a more convenient location. That way it wouldn't be as much
work to point back to the network drive once it's mounted again. I'm
sure somebody has probably written an Applescript for this situation.
That said, there are others who have the same issue and figured out some
hackery to work around it:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2672590?start=0&tstart=0
I haven't tested this since I don't have my music on a NAS but they are
saying to make the
/Users/your_name/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music
an alias to the NAS so when iTunes defaults back it still goes to the
right place and just fails like you want when the NAS is not there.
CB
On 1/3/12 2:43 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote:
Ok, so if I launch iTunes and I'm away from home, when I return I must change
the library location each time after I've been somewhere? The thing is, I
don't want all that music on my MBP or my Mac Air.
Reach within you, find the beauty of you, then share your light with the world!
Marlaina Lieberg
[email protected]
On Jan 3, 2012, at 7:07 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
I think a higher level description is that iTunes will store your preference of
library location and use it from then on when you launch. But, if it can't find
your new special location (because it doesn't exist for some reason) it will
revert back to using the standard location. So if you have an external hard
drive or network mounted drive for your iTunes library you will need to make
sure that is connected/mounted first and then launch iTunes. Otherwise it will
silently fail and go back to its old ways.
CB
On 1/2/12 7:49 PM, Sean Murphy wrote:
Hi,
Go to the desktop/finder. Press command + k. This opens the network connection
dialog. Enter in the server name or the IP address of the server. EG:
smb://192.168.1.1
This will open a new dialog. If a username/password is required, you will be
prompted. If none is required, then you will get a dialog showing the available
shared directories available.
I hope the above helps.
Sean
On 03/01/2012, at 11:04 AM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote:
Sean,
Thank you so much but how do I do this? I don't even know where
/volumes/directory is located or how to find it, not to mention what to do if
the external server drive is not mounted.
Reach within you, find the beauty of you, then share your light with the world!
Marlaina Lieberg
[email protected]
On Jan 1, 2012, at 6:43 PM, Sean Murphy wrote:
Hi,
Make sure the external drive is mounted first. All mounted volumes are in
/volumes directory.
Sean
On 02/01/2012, at 10:46 AM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote:
Hi all.
Can anybody tell me why neither my Air nor my MBP will believe me when I tell
them I want my libraries in iTunes located on my external server? I keep
having to change this each time I open iTunes, no matter which machine I use.
I have other questions about iTunes match, but will hold off on them.
Thanks so much and happy holidays to all!
MarlainaD
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