Hi, If these movies were purchased through iTunes, there is an even easier option. As long as the “Show iTunes in the Cloud Purchases” checkbox is checked from within the Store pane of iTunes Prefs, you can leave the movies up in the iTunes Cloud and simply stream them to your device whenever you wish to watch them. With that item checked, all items you’ve purchased through iTunes are logged within the iTunes Apple servers, so as long as you have an Internet connection, you can watch them. I do a similar thing in that I download all iTunes purchases to my iMac but not to my MBP as it just couldn’t hold my entire library. I have that item checked and still have access to all my iTunes purchases on my laptop. Actually, with my iTunes Match subscription, I have access to all my non-purchased music as well.
HTH. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Dec 3, 2013, at 9:56 AM, Andrew Lamanche <andrew.laman...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Listers, > > Here is my conundrum: I have limited space on my macbook air, and since I’m > becoming increasingly more confident with the mac and iPhone, my iTunes > library is filling up very fast indeed. The most space is now taken up with > movies. I therefore thought I might possibly create a separate library in > iTunes for movies only that i would put on an external drive attached to my > airport extreme. This would free my macbook air considerably and yet leave > all my other stuff like music and playlists on my portable computer. > > I’ve searched on the internet and have found a method. I’ve also searched > macvisionarries archive and have seen Donna’s post and the advice given to > her about unchecking the “add media to library” option in the advanced > options of the preferences in iTunes. However, I guess it would also stop > adding other stuff I buy via the iTunes store to the computer library which I > might want on my macbook air, or else, if it wouldn’t stop adding purchases > to the computer library, it would prevent me from buying movies from the > iTunes store because they would then be added to my macbook air library and > not the movie library on the external drive, wouldn’t it/ Is my reasoning > correct? > > A web search has come up with a method to do so but it requires dragging and > dropping files while holding the option key. It seems rather dangerous to me > because I’m not sure whether there is an equivalent Voiceover command to > option+drag motion. The description of creating this separate library is also > somewhat murky to me. It suggests, exporting the movie and tv content first, > creating a folder on the desktop and then dragging the titles of the movies > and tv shows into that folder so that the actual content would be copied into > the desktop folder and not just the links, then creating a new library and > placing it on an external drive, then dragging the content of the desktop > folder while holding the option key into the new library and presto, says the > author. But it’s not presto for me, I’m afraid. > > Can any of you gurus understand this method? Is there a different way of > separating my library into two libraries so that I can reduce its size on my > macbook air? I’m somewhat reluctant to relocate the whole of the iTunes > library onto an external drive but maybe that’s the easiest and safest way to > achieve my goal. Please feel free to write off list because it’s kind > semi-related although might come in handy to others too. I can see my iTunes > library growing and growing, and it makes me shiver but then there’s the > pleasure of having the media available through iTunes. > > Please let me have your thoughts on this. > > With thanks > > Andrew > > -- > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
