thedog
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Computer Question.... itunes and external hd related
I just got an external hard drive.
i was just wondering if anyone runs their itunes off an external hd?
is this even recommended?
any idea how to do it?
if not running off a external hd,
how would i at least back up my itunes with it?
thanks
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random
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i've been wondering the same thing.
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i tend to back mine up on an external hd and that works great but i don't see the problem in running itunes from it. i've edited video projects from
an external hd
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Hmmm..... well I am borderline computer retarted so I dont think I can answer many questions about this because I didnt initually set it up....
However..... I can tell you that iTunes is on my MAIN PC harddrive, BUT all of my MP3s are on my external harddrive. So that tells you that it does in
fact work, beyond that Im little to no help at all!
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I think that iTunes will copy your files to the iTunes library, so you end up saving everything twice (could be wrong... maybe just saves a link to
from iTunes to the original). So it seems like you should be able to move the iTunes library to the external HD and just save everything directly to
it. But I have no idea how to do such a thing. 
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I moved mine to a external drive, but don't ask me how I did it. I know I fucked it up and had to reload everything.
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joemaconmovies
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you can set up your music library anywhere you want. i can't tell you off hand how to do it but if you want help i can go through the steps with you
and figure it out. just make sure the external hd is always plugged in and on before adding anything to itunes
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easy stuff, homies.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449
http://lifehacker.com/software/itunes/ultranewb--how-to-move...
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-yo...
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saving lives and solving all of our computer needs... BD might just be superman (has the glasses and everything, too, right?)
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i just drag everything into my ipod, my itunes has nothing in it, i dont add files to itunes, because i think it sucks as a player .... lol
i still use good old winamp
or when i do this is it putting the files somewhere i don't know about.................besides on my ipod????
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| Quote: | Originally posted by random
saving lives and solving all of our computer needs... BD might just be superman (has the glasses and everything, too, right?)
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i so coulda done this!
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thedog
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thanks everyone.
havent had a chance to mess wit it yet, hopefully this wkend.
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