Hey Kliphton, Thanks. I think the idea of doing this all wirelessly sounds very cool. If I get a time-capsule, I may pick your brain more about how you did this. Cheers, Donna On Feb 3, 2013, at 7:36 PM, Kliphton A M <[email protected]> wrote:
> I do it. I didn't partition my time capsule, but I did put the movies in > there own folder. Works flawlessly. I have itunes set to point to the > files, not copy them to my library. Just for your knowledge. HTH > On Feb 3, 2013, at 12:34 PM, Donna Goodin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Tim, >> >> We already have home-sharing turned on. We were thinking that it would be >> cool to store our movies on a drive that connects wirelessly to my MBA. but >> I suppose if we have to use a standard portable drive, that isn't the end of >> the world. But it does raise another question or two. Can I set up iTunes >> so that only the movies in my library are stored on a portable drive? And >> if I do that, will iTunes be messed up when that drive isn't connected? >> Thanks, >> Donna >> On Feb 3, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I believe that it may be technically possible but not extremely practical. >>> You would need to probably partition your TC so that the backups were on a >>> separate partition then set your Mac to automatically mount the other >>> partition where your iTunes content is stored. Then when you started >>> iTunes, it would access its Library from that network drive. I think that >>> performance would be compromised and other inconsistencies may occur. Why >>> not simply use the Home Sharing feature built-in to iTunes so that all >>> users with the same AppleID in your house could access that Library? >>> >>> Later... >>> >>> Tim Kilburn >>> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >>> >>> On 2013-02-03, at 9:40 AM, Donna Goodin <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all >>>> >>>> Does anyone know if it is possible to use time capsule to store your >>>> movies library and iTunes and to play movies from there? >>>> Cheers, >>>> Donna >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
