iTunes Library changing location by itself

[FamiliaPhoto]

Hello all,

I have a strange problem at least to me. Recently I moved my iTunes library to an external drive and all went fine. I used the consolidation tool to achieve the task and all went just fine. Since doing this every time I open iTunes the location of the library has changed back to my local drive.

For example...

I set it to: \volumes\media\iTunes Media

and it is automatically changed to: \users\me\music\iTunes\iTunes Media

has anyone seen this before?

 

[ChrisBrightwell]

Did you start iTunes w/out the external drive connected?

 

[FamiliaPhoto]

Did you start iTunes w/out the external drive connected?

Good question. The drive is connected to my Airport Extreme but appears to be asleep until I navigate to it in finder. Is there a way I can change that?

 

[ChrisBrightwell]

I haven't tested it, but you can probably use an alias here for a more robust solution.

1. Right-click on your networked folder in Finder, select "Create Alias".
2. Move the alias to your ~/Music/iTunes folder.
3. Rename it to iTunes Media (assuming you've moved all your media onto the network).
4. Point iTunes to that alias, rather than the networked folder.

 

[FamiliaPhoto]

I haven't tested it, but you can probably use an alias here for a more robust solution.

1. Right-click on your networked folder in Finder, select "Create Alias".
2. Move the alias to your ~/Music/iTunes folder.
3. Rename it to iTunes Media (assuming you've moved all your media onto the network).
4. Point iTunes to that alias, rather than the networked folder.

Thank you, just gave that a try. Interesting that when I navigate to the alias it saves as the path to the network volume. Strange to me, but lets see how it works. Could be my lack of things Mac and how Alias' work.