Thanks again. That's what I did yesterday. I thought I was doing it right and maybe I did. It took a while to convert them over or copy them over. When it was done it looked like the files were on my lap top. I'll have to unplug the external drive and see if I still see them on the lap top. By any chance, do you know a good program that will convewrt commercial DVD's so I could include those to watch through Apple TV as well? ----- Original Message ----- From: Sieghard Weitzel To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 8:34 PM Subject: RE: Itunes path to video files
Hi Tom, This is fairly simple, I assume you have all your videos/movies in one folder on your external hard drive, let's assume it's called "Movies and Videos". Now open iTunes, go to "File" and "Add Folder". Browse to the "Movies and Videos" folder on your external hard drive, then click "Select" and all the videos and movies in the folder will be added to the Movies library in iTunes, but the physical copy remains on your external drive. I do the same thing with Movies and Audio Books because my laptop only has a 120 Gig Solid State Drive and the Lord of the Rings trilogy in high definition I bought from iTunes alone is over 30 Gig. You can, by the way, do this with any media, music, ringtones, audio books etc. As long as the files have the proper iTunes file extentions they will be put in the correct library/category in iTunes. Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Rash Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 7:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Itunes path to video files Someone told me years ago for my music and I can't find the file with that info. What I want to do is have itunes point to my videos on my external hard drive. I don't want to have the videos moved to my laptop where itunes is, but I want to have Itunes point to the folder on my hard drive so I can play videos in home sharing on my Apple TV. How do I do this? thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. 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/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. 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/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. 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/viphone?hl=en.
