Hi Chris,There shouldn't be a problem with doing this; in fact, I do the same thing for the same reason. It just means that you will need to create two itunes libraries--one on your macbook and one on your external drive. If you hold down the option key when you start itunes, it will bring up the dialog to create a new library or change libraries (in my opinion there should be an option in the itunes menus to do this but ...). Then just make sure that you have the copy files to library box checked in your preferences and use command o to import the desired subfolders from your external to your macbook.
Greg On Mar 9, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote:
As I mentioned yesterday, my digital media colection is too big for the puny HD that came with my MacBook 13. I have a 1 tb external fire wire drive that I run XP and Ubuntu from.I want to put the entire digital music collection onto the big disk and keep a smaller set of duplicates on the Mac so I needn't carry the larger drive with me.Can anyone see a problem with this? On Mar 8, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Mark Baxter wrote:I don't think this is addressing my concern. I have the MP3 files on my computer; I transferred them successfully, and then I played them in the QuickLook panel in Finder. However, even after I import them into the Itunes Library from within Itunes, when I try to play them again, I get a busy signal and then an "unable to connect," error, as if it's looking for the contents of the MP3 files on the other drive on my network, which is not operating. This, however, makes no sense, because Quick Look can play them. It is just this type of thing which threatens the very fundamental structure of my sanity. Which headphones I use to listen to the files that Itunes won't play for me is highly irrelevant!Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: BurningHawk1969@xxxxxxxxxxx My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/Click on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.comManage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.//www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxwith 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Webinterface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceoverClick on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.comManage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.//www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxwith 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Webinterface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
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