hello everyone. I just got a new macbookpro and want to store all my ibooks on an external drive.....I have read this is not possible.....I am now storing all of my music/photos this way..on an external drive.....is there some other way to store the books other than on a/the hard drive...Mine, the hard drive, already has a very large mount of needed space devoted to the books.....any insight..?
i tried that and can't figure out how to do that...import books directly into music. There has to be a video or something that can explain this......OR.......Can I use my other itunes meaning a/the version before the Books thing happened....on another macbookpro just to store all of the books after i move all the music to Music...?
i tried that and can't figure out how to do that...import books directly into music. There has to be a video or something that can explain this......OR.......Can I use my other itunes meaning a/the version before the Books thing happened....on another macbookpro just to store all of the books after i move all the music to Music...?
I have absolutely no books in my collection, plus I use iTunes 7.5 from about 12 years ago. The bit I quoted earlier was all that was said. That said, I wonder if you need to change the file extensions so the audio files are not longer seen as books but as music files. I believe that would entail changing them from .m4b to .m4a. I would experiment on a copy of a single file until you were content with the results.
Send feedback to Apple about this. Yours is not the first complaint I have seen of this kind.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
I am referring to audiobooks. Add them to Music like I was doing before the Books change thing happened..? I really, really, can't lose all of these books but the way it's going my hard drive will be full of books....If addding the books to Music is possible then I have to ask...what is Books supposed to be used for, other than taking up a LOT of valuable space on the hard drive...?
I quote this from another topic, "The only workaround I can think of offhand is to delete the media from Books and import the originals to Music instead of Books. They should still be on the external drive."
If you're referring to audiobooks you could try adding them to Music where external storage is possible.
storing books on an external drive and not on the hard drive
