Re: running your ITunes libery from an external hard drive?

2009-08-19 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi trahern, You could try the following: • Go to your Desktop by pressing VO-shift-d • Go up to the Go menu and choose Home folder. • Locate the Music folder and open it. • Locate the iTunes folder and open it. • Locate the iTunes Music folder and then press cmd-c to Copy it. • Navigate to your

Re: running your ITunes libery from an external hard drive?

2009-08-19 Thread Barry Hadder
Hi, There is actually a much easer way to do this. Hole down the option key while you launch itunes. You will get a dialog where you can either choose a library, or create a new library. This gives you the ability to maintain several different libraries in many locations. On Aug 19,

Re: running your ITunes libery from an external hard drive?

2009-08-19 Thread Tim Kilburn
Yes that would work but I was assuming that the purpose of using the external HD for the music library was a space concern hence these instructions. Later... On 19-Aug-09, at 11:57 AM, Barry Hadder wrote: Hi, There is actually a much easer way to do this. Hole down the option key

running your ITunes libery from an external hard drive?

2009-08-16 Thread trahern culver
hey please can the group help me? because after reinstalling the o s i wanted to run my old ITunes libery from an external i followed a instruction guyed that told me to click chainge in preffrence to chainge the location of my libery so i did that right. then i clicked consolidate libery like it