Movies downloaded from iTunes is taking a ton of space on my Hard Drive.
Is there a way to remove them from iTunes yet retain them on the cloud? Today Movies purchased directly from my Apple TV do not download automatically and that is nice to still keep hard drive space on my MAC. They just have the cloud icon on the bottom that will allow me to download if I wanted to.
iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
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You are trusting if you want to only keep them i iCloud. Some studios do not permit repeat downloads. If an item gets pulled from the Store you may not be able to re-download it. Personally I would buy two external drives for archiving purposes. iCloud is a convenience, not something upon which to rely.
Is there a way to install an external Hard Drive say via USB or Fire Wire and then only have the movies reside there? I thought the iTunes library was all or nothing. when it came to a drive location. But If I can separate and only have the movies externally that would solve my situation.
No, you cannot configure iTunes to automatically store music in one place and movies in another. You can manually manage it that way by copying the movie file to an external drive then hold down the option key while dragging it back to an iTunes window. I have always thought it would make sense to set up a separate iTunes library for movies on an external drive.
One can temporarily change the default file location in iTunes Preferences to be on an external drive, download the movie, then change Preferences back.
rockmyplimsoul wrote:
One can temporarily change the default file location in iTunes Preferences to be on an external drive, download the movie, then change Preferences back.
Another option is to download the movie to the Mac, but then do a "selective consolidation" to move it to the external drive, then go back and delete the copy left on the Mac.
This method is more involved, but either way the Mac can play the movie from the external when connected, and when it is disconnected the movie entry in the iTunes library will remain.
Remove movie from MAC keep on iCloud
