Redirecting External HD for iTunes

[Gryz]

I have a Seagate 1tb External HD that I use for backup of my school files and also my music and podcasts from iTunes. I have went into iTunes and moved the folder location to match my Seagate so when I play a song or podcast, it is reading off of it and not my Mac HD, which has no music on it anyway.

When I power off though or disconnect the Seagate, I have to go in and redirect iTunes all over again. Is there a way to get iTunes to always read from my external without redirecting it all the time?

 

[GGJstudios]

I have a Seagate 1tb External HD that I use for backup of my school files and also my music and podcasts from iTunes. I have went into iTunes and moved the folder location to match my Seagate so when I play a song or podcast, it is reading off of it and not my Mac HD, which has no music on it anyway.

When I power off though or disconnect the Seagate, I have to go in and redirect iTunes all over again. Is there a way to get iTunes to always read from my external without redirecting it all the time?

Make sure your external drive is mounted properly before you launch iTunes, or it can't find your music folder and will create/re-create a media folder on your internal drive.

 

[miles01110]

Leave the external drive on. You cannot tell it to look for media in a location which, as far as it's concerned, does not exist when the drive is powered off.