I have an Aluminum Macbook and a Western Digital External Harddrive. Does anyone know how to set up the harddrive so that all of my media (music, photos, movies, etc.) will save directly to the external harddrive?
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External Harddrive Troubles
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In iTunes you have to go to the preferences window and change the location of your music library to the external drive. I believe there is a similar option in iPhoto, but I haven't used it in a long time.
I am not sure I understand the question... sorry
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Im asking how i can designate my external harddrive to save all of the music, photos, movies, etc. that i download or import automatically rather than these files saving to my laptop's internal harddrive.
Where you save these things is a function of the application you use to download them. There isn't a global setting for this.
You can set up iTunes to have its library on the external drive, Firefox/Safari to automatically save downloads to that drive, etc. Each application will have a different setting you'll need to change.
You can set up iTunes to have its library on the external drive, Firefox/Safari to automatically save downloads to that drive, etc. Each application will have a different setting you'll need to change.