where to store movies purchased on iTunes

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where to store movies purchased on iTunes

Is there anyway or can I even store movies punched from iTunes on a hard drive of any type.

To save space I keep them in the cloud till I want to download on my device and then just delete from device and they go back in the cloud.

Any help would be great.

Thanks, Mark

iPad Mini, iOS 8.1

Posted on Nov 25, 2015 5:58 AM

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Winston Churchill

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Nov 25, 2015 2:43 PM in response to drtigger

You can and should download them via iTunes on a computer and save them there or on a external drive.

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drtigger Author

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Nov 25, 2015 10:16 AM in response to Winston Churchill

Thanks, having a macbook air I don't have a lot of space. Read that some say not a good idea storing them on a Apple TC, was thinking about getting 2T as I have almost 700GB which I keep on iTunes.

Thank you.

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Protodd

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Nov 25, 2015 2:42 PM in response to drtigger

I have my entire itunes library on a usb 3tb drive. I don't store hardly anything in my physical macbook

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drtigger Author

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Nov 25, 2015 2:46 PM in response to Protodd

Thanks Winston and Protodd,

I'm not that tech savvy and I thank you both for your help.

Now I just have to figure out 🙂

Mark

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Protodd

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Nov 25, 2015 2:49 PM in response to drtigger

Good luck. This link may be useful in your mission😉

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/02/03/how-to-move-your-macs-itunes-library-o nto-an-external-drive

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morrispe

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Nov 25, 2015 4:38 PM in response to drtigger

I used to store all my iTunes content on my iMac within iTunes and use home sharing to stream to my Apple TV's. Recently I had my iMac's 3TB fusion drive replaced and I've since decided not to restore all that video to my iMac.

I'm throwing caution to the wind and trusting iTunes in the Cloud so now I just stream my purchases right to the Apple TV from Apple's servers. Call me crazy. 😉

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vazandrew

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Nov 25, 2015 8:19 PM in response to morrispe

If anything is removed from the store you would no longer have access to that purchase in the cloud. Best thing is to buy an external drive.

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Nov 26, 2015 2:28 AM in response to drtigger

drtigger wrote:

Thanks, having a macbook air I don't have a lot of space. Read that some say not a good idea storing them on a Apple TC....

It depends on why you are storing them.

If it's just to keep a copy incase Apple ever remove your purchases from the store, then a TC should be fine. If however you want to use it as your library it can create additional traffic over your network and maybe introduce streaming problems. Shouldn't be a problem on a reasonably stable network though.

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