Thanks; I'll have a play with this. Reach within you, find the beauty of you, then share your light with the world!
Marlaina Lieberg [email protected] On Jan 3, 2012, at 12:42 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: 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 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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