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I have an apple airport 2TB which i keep all my media on. My iTunes is set to read all the music from my airport, but when I import a CD to my iTunes library it automatically saves to my mac not to my airport. i don't have much memory on my mac... help??
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When you say "set to read music from the airport", how did you set that up? If you look at Preferences / Advanced in iTunes, you'll see a box at the top that says iTunes media folder location. If that's set to your Airport's drive it should rip directly to there. What I don't know is what'll happen if you change it now. It might overwrite what's already there. You should post this question in the iTunes area, you'll get more expertise there.
i don't have much memory on my mac
You need to keep an eye on your shrinking hard drive space (that's what you were referring to I believe). You need to have an absolute minimum of 10 - 15 GB of empty hard drive space at all times (more would be much much better) so the OS can operate properly.
There is a check box to keep your media organized in one location. Make sure that box is checked.
This is a related topic regarding protecting your data. You store media on your 2 TB Airport drive. Is this the only copy of that media? In other words is it not backed up? If so you are in danger of losing it if and when that 2 TB disk crashes. You would need another 2 or 3 TB disk to back it up. If you want instructions on how to do that post back.
@hands4 yes this is the only copy of my media. basically i want all my media, docs etc on this airport just like an external hard drive. is there any way of doing a back up of the data thats on it without having another airport?
Yes. It is not hard and not expensive. A backup drive will cost a bit more than $100 and your stored media is obviously more valuable than that.
If you prefer to keep you external storage system completely wireless you could plug the backup drive into the same Airport Extreme (or other router) as the live drive. However the initial backup will be a lengthy process and you will see slow but tolerable incremental backups. For faster speed you could plug the backup drive into your Mac, especially for the first full backup. You can experiment with this. It will work either way and you can change the location even after the initial backup.
I would recommend purchasing a 3 TB USB 3.0 external hard drive for the backups. (Almost any brand will do except WD.) Partition it with a GUID partition as Mac OS Externded (journaled).
To copy the data I recommend cloning software such as Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! The first time that runs it will take a long time to copy all the data over the network but after that it copies only the data that has changed.
Cloning is also an excellent way to backup your system drive. If you use a 3 TB disk and you want to get fancy, you can partition it into 2 TB for the media backup and 1 TB to clone for your internal system drive.
importing cd's to my airport instead of my mac
