iTunes music is eating my HD...how can I move it to another drive?

[SteveJobs]

If any of you have done this, I'd like to know the best way to do so.

How can I move my iTunes Music, which currently my wife and I share via the SHARED user folder, to another drive?

My options are:
1) attached firewire
2) server (I have an older Mac with GB ethernet acting as a server)

Can I move it to one of those? If so, what are the procedures? Pros and Cons, too?

tia

[BigGuynRusty]

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301748

BGnR

[SteveJobs]

Thanks. I've seen that. Does anyone have firsthand experience with moving it to another Mac/Server? I'm just a little hesitant since they build in all the 'authorize computer' stuff.

[BigGuynRusty]

Jeezo!

BGnR

[deckeda]

[quote SteveJobs] ... I'm just a little hesitant since they build in all the 'authorize computer' stuff.
The 'authorize computer' part of iTunes Music Store-purchased songs applies to on which machine the songs are played, not where they are stored.

In most cases it's the same, but if they're stored on a hard disk 2 feet away from your Mac in an external case ... so what?

Your bigger concern with re-locating the iTunes Music folder is retaining the "shared" aspect of the songs with regard to file permissions since as I'm sure you're aware, the standard Shared folder doesn't behave like a normal folder.

Although I don't use a separate HD for iTunes, my wife and I --- separate admin accounts --- share one iTunes Library via ACLs. For each of us, opening iTunes provides identical usage, right down to playlists and either user can update iTunes for the other. ACLs are the only way this can happen.

Anyway, it maybe could save your bacon when moving everything to another (non-Shared) folder elsewhere. This page says it doesn't work for iTunes, but it does:

http://ad.hominem.org/log/2005/07/acl.php

Thank you, thank you, thank you Trenton Davies

[$tevie]

I moved most of my iTunes to an external firewire drive. Using Doug Adams' Applescript iTunes Library Manager http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo...anager.php I made one Library for the external drive, and one much smaller Library for my iBook with the music I am most apt to want to listen to when the external drive is not available. I don't remember specifically moving the files, but I do remember that everything seemed to go pretty painlessly. I think Doug Adams' Applescripts make doing almost anything with iTunes so simple that they are always worth a look, to see if there is a script to help you with whatever you want to do.

[BigGuynRusty]

You don't need a SymLink with iPhoto or iTunes, just hold down the option key on launch of the app, and a dialog box will ask where the library is. The setting will stick till you do the option key at launch.
Been in iPhoto for a while, new to iTunes. I keep multiple iPhoto libraries this way.
Love ACL's!

BGnR

[OWC Larry]

Not sure if this will help you:
http://eshop.macsales.com/Reviews/Framew...obile.html

and itunes auth is tied be computer being used for the actual playback - not where the file is stored/being read from.

[SteveJobs]

Done.

The apple article works/ed.

Strangely, moving my music took it from 79GB to about 38 GB.