How to make itunes use my secondary harddrive (install place) instead of main?

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How to make itunes use my secondary harddrive (install place) instead of main?

So i kinda ran into this problem with a never update of itunes (Currently on the newest):
When i try to update the music on my ipod, it just starts to install all my apps (18 gb) onto my pc, first off i trought that was fine. Since i did install itunes on the harddrive with over 1 tb of space. But suddenly my pc started saying that was not enough space to run on, on my main harddrive (SSD) and i saw that itunes just used my SSD as it´s main folder, which i asked it not to do.

Now i can´t update my music, which is really annoying, since i´m a dancer and kinda want to mix up my music with more than just 30 songs over and over agian. Anyone knows how to move the apps to my secondary harddrive or stop itunes installing all the apps onto my pc?

Thanks anyway

Aktio

Ps: have a ipod touch (First version, i think)

Windows 7

Posted on Nov 18, 2013 5:55 AM

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turingtest2

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Nov 18, 2013 6:52 AM in response to Aktio

Move the entire iTunes folder from <User's Music> to the root of the other drive. Press and hold down shift as you launch iTunes and keep holding until asked to choose or create a library. Click choose and browse to X:\iTunes\iTunes Library.itl where X:\ is the drive letter.

You should also consider making a backup of your library to an external drive.

iTunes will still want to store iOS backup data on the system drive unless you use the following process to relocate it.

Moving the iOS device backup location

Open a command prompt by hitting the start button and typing CMD<Enter> in the search box that opens up, or with Start > Run on older Windows.

To move the current backup folder from C: to X: (for example) type in this command and press <Enter>

Move "C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup" "X:\Backup"

Where <User> is your Windows user name.

To make iTunes look for the data in the new location type in this command and press <Enter>

MkLink /J "C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup" "X:\Backup"

If your preferred drive has a different letter or you already have a folder called "Backup" then edit "X:\Backup" accordingly in both commands.

If you have Windows XP then you'll need a third-party tool such as Junction to link the two locations together instead of the MkLink command. The source folder is C:\Documents and Settings\<User>\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup

tt2

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