Launching itunes from my external drive

The simplest way to move your iTunes library is to move the entire iTunes folder to the new drive. Then hold down the Option key as you start iTunes and direct iTunes to the library in the new location.

iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Media folder:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449

I tried this, but it doesn't work properly. When you run itunes I cannot find the drive. Then you have to go 'connect' to the external drive, then itunes will work. Every time I run Itunes, i cannot find the drive, (since its not mounted) and I have click on the drive, wait for it to connect, then browse down the menu structure to itunes library. There must be a way to mount thist first. I tried moving the volume to the login items, but it doesn't help.

NMMacGuy wrote:

I tried this, but it doesn't work properly. When you run itunes I cannot find the drive. Then you have to go 'connect' to the external drive, then itunes will work. Every time I run Itunes, i cannot find the drive, (since its not mounted)

Why isn't it mounted? Mount it before you launch iTunes.

Is this a USB drive or a network drive?

The drive is on my airport extreme router. So since i have moved my itunes libary to it, when I bring up Iturnes, it fails to find library since drive is not accessible until you connect to it in finder.

I tried moving the volume to the login items, but it doesn't help.

What does/doesn't happen?

The drive is not accesible until you first access it and connect to it. This make any software depending on files there fail until this happens. The files are not immeidately accessible. For instance to get itunes to work, you have to first initiate a connect, which should happen automatcally or itunes will fail and say it can't find file. Same thing happens if you have an alias to file, such as a pdf file, it won't be able to automaticlly bring up that file, but it fails to find it .

NMMacGuy wrote:

The drive is not accesible until you first access it and connect to it.

Which is what adding it to the login items does.

Yea, you can't add it to the login items.

You need to first mount the drive then you can add it to login items.

-> http://osxdaily.com/2010/09/20/map-a-network-drive-on-a-mac/

I tried that too and even if you can get the volume to appear, and drag to login items, its still fails on login -- says it can't find the volume. Under shared in the finder, it shows the router names, whereas the volumes of course have their own unique names.

The login items shows a exclamation/ triangle next to login item with warning about unknown helper app. Where before it said "volume".. its like it can't find the volume (which make sense since its not mounted at login). its like a chicken or egg scenario.

Finder prefs > General.

Make sure Connected servers is ticked.

Also, see this -> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3794042?start=0&tstart=0

yep already was checked