iTunes is able access two different media folders at once???

varjak paw wrote:

Absolutely do not just move the music in Finder. You'll break iTunes that way. If you want all your tracks in a single place, make sure the correct location is selected in the Advanced preference and then use the Consolidate command. That's what it's for.

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH990

Regards.

So how do I go about keeping Movies and Music on seperate drives?

Thanks for the quick response, Limnos.

The think that confuses me is that the Prefence is set to organise.

I'm not complaining - I was low on space on the eternal and being able to move stuff without losing access is a Godsend 🙂

varjak paw wrote:

iTunes can point to only one location in which to save new imports or purchased, as set in the Advances preferences, but as you have discovered can point to multiple locations for existing content. The full path to each item is part of the library file, depending on what that setting was at the time the content was imported or downloaded, so content can be in multiple places and all be accessed by iTunes without problems. It's been this way since the early versions of iTunes.

This, by the way, is why the Consolidate command exists, to pull all the content from such scattered locations into a single place (the only set in the Advanced preferences), should you ever wish to do so.

Regards.

Shoot I meant hit "this helped" not "solved" because I have more questions.

Limnos wrote:

Even if you have iTunes set to manage your media you can override this by holding down the option key while dragging items to iTunes. It will leave them whever you put them.

Letting iTunes manage your media you cannot have two media folders designated at one time. You could designate one, consolidate items to the one, change media folder location and selectively consolidate some items to the other and split media this way.

If you do not let iTunes organize your media for you then it can be pretty much anywhere. I do not let iTunes manage my media and I used to have it on 2 separate drives. Right now I have it in 3 major folders outside the iTunes folder.

This is answer, obviously. 😝

Limnos, do you have AppleTV? Can it still see all your content?

varjak paw wrote:

You cannot do this and have also iTunes copy and manage the content files automatically. You either have to manage your iTunes content and library manually, or allow iTunes to manage everything itself, and there's no option in iTunes to split the locations by content type. There may be a third-party utility that would help, such as TuneSpan:

http://tunespan.com

Regards.

Thanks, varjak 😉

Limnos wrote:

I saw an AppleTV across the room once in an Apple Store, about 2 years ago...

The below is about my generation of Apple equipment. 😉

the 😝 was meant for this.

the way it appeared may have caused unintentional insult

Limnos wrote:

So how do I go about keeping Movies and Music on seperate drives?

There is no automatic way of doing this with iTunes. You can put movies on an external, then option+drag to add to library and it will leave them there.

Alternatively, why not just set up a separate library for movies and keep the whole library on the external? I archive most of my media on external drives which don't get plugged in until I want the files.

This is want I want to do - have my music and apps on the internal and my videos stay on the external.

Can I do that without losing the data like date added?

Thank for the quick answers, guys.

I want to move my Music back to the internal but keep the date like play count and date added.

Do I just drag the folder to the internal?

Okay. Thanks, varjak.