I am encoding all my dvd's using handbrake and tv shows with visual hub in anticipation of my apple tv. I was just wondering how you guys have them stored. I have an external HD into which all my stuff is organized, but when I try to add the shows/movies to iTunes, it makes another copy of it thats stored within the iTunes library on my MacBook Pro. This HD will fill up extremely fast using this method, so basically I just want iTunes to copy all my MUSIC when I add it to its own Itunes stored library, but I just want iTunes to merely "access" my video files that are physically stored on my external HD. Any help??? Thanks alot
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Add movies from external HD to Itunes without copying
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key and then click and drag the files into itunes.
You can permanently stop iTunes doing this in Preferences ... I'm away from the Mac at the moment, but I think it's something like the "Manage my music" option. Checking the option causes iTunes to copy all media that you add to its own directory, unchecking it means it leaves the content wherever it is.
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Jim
Thanks Jim. Only thing is that I still want my music to be copied, but just not my movies. I will try to hold down the Apple key once I get back home. Thank you
I wanted this same thing. What I did was create a separate iTunes library on my external HDD for my movies. Whenever I want to watch a movie, I would just hold "Option" when opening iTunes and select that library.
I'm going to try this new method now.
the previous poster was correct. holding option toggles this behaviour... sooooooooo handy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks a million!
hey, did anyone realise that you can move files out of the itunes library in finder and itunes will know where to find it??
is this new?
is this new?
So does this mean that you can have movies and tv shows on an external, "copy" them to iTunes on a laptop and not copy the actual file, and then, when you sync to Apple TV (as long as the external is hooked up to the laptop at the time) the file will be sent to the Apple TV?
If you disconnect the external from the laptop and sync, will the file then be deleted?
Does this work on an iPod as well?
If you disconnect the external from the laptop and sync, will the file then be deleted?
Does this work on an iPod as well?
Is it poss to have all your itunes content on an external only? How ?
Also, i used the above where you press option key and drop into itunes to save space - doing this disables the tagging facility for MeTax. Anyone know any way around this?
Thanks
Also, i used the above where you press option key and drop into itunes to save space - doing this disables the tagging facility for MeTax. Anyone know any way around this?
Thanks