itunes library key change? between external hd and macbook hd

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itunes library key change? between external hd and macbook hd

hi

i have macbook and a big external hd. my itunes library is in external hd using "alias". so that when it opens it searches for my library in home/music folder and alias to my external hd.

but when i am on road, i would like to have a small library on my macbook hd using maybe a different library name and so on.

is there any function or some key (like apple + l) to change between 2 libraries?

thanks

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Mar 17, 2008 6:27 AM

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Answer 1

downinitjr

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Mar 17, 2008 8:03 AM in response to Yong Taek Hwang

Simply hold down the option key when starting itunes. It will present you with the option to create a new library which you can store where every you like. In your case just create the new library on your internal drive, and add whatever music to that library. Make sure copy to library is turned on in itunes preferences>advanced>general if you want it to actually copy the music from the external to the internal library.

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Answer 2

Mar 29, 2008 3:55 PM in response to downinitjr

I was looking for this exact information. Thank you for your post.

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