On 10 Oct 2014, at 14:56, Toby Leighton wrote:
You can! but danger lies this way.
yeah but your way it's going to complain unless the HDD is plugged in,
try to sync them to any iPhone that's plugged in (etc). I think, from
experience (!) that *your* way is more likely to lead to duplicates and
(in due course) new stuff intended for the MBP ending up on the HDD etc.
Mine sandboxes them. Each file/library is blissfully unaware of the
other. The only thing that can go wrong is that it says, when looking at
the MB files, 'this ipod is synced with another library, you sure about
this?' which is a pretty good warning.
Ps they really should not have used 'library' to refer to both the file
and the collection. Especially when the iPhoto library is a completely
different beast. It makes it hard to explain/suggest things...
Simply put if you untick the option in preferences for itunes to
manage
your library, you can then store your files anwhere on any of your
hard
disks you like.
Its hard to explain but from years of experience, it tends to be best
to
just trust itunes to do its thing and not try to outsmart it though.
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Doubley so for iPhoto.
the danger might be overstated, but it could culminate in lots of
duplicate files, and trying to play media but it not being available.
Unless you are very OCD about your naming conventions and storage
paths it
can easily run awry
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