LJ Genie really *does* work! Now: iTunes.

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So I'll try to explain this simply yet thoroughly, because if I confuse myself, I'm *sure* to confuse others.

Here's what I want:

I run iTunes on Mac OS X. I recently bought a huge mother external hard drive. I would like to put my entire music collection on this hard drive, so that whenever the drive is plugged in, I can access all of my music that way.

However, I also wish to keep a selection of my music on my laptop's hard drive, so that I can take my very favorite stuff with me whereever I go.

The problem:

The easiest way to get my music onto the external hard drive would appear to be to tell iTunes to locate my iTunes music folder on the external hard drive rather than on the laptop's hard drive, then begin importing the CDs into iTunes. However, I worry that doing that would prevent my laptop from being able to access the music on its own hard drive when the external one is not plugged in, or at least that it would confuse it.

The question:

Should I move my iTunes music folder to the external drive, and if so, should I keep another version of the same folder on my laptop? If not, what *should* I do?

Comments

Just an idea

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If you set up your folder on the external drive, and set that folder as the default place you save iTunes to or call the up from to listen to them, then if your external drive isn't there (like you're on a train or something), shouldn't the iTunes player tell you it can't find the folder it's supposed to look for and ask you to give it another folder to look in? And if it does, can't you tell it to look in a folder on your laptop where you keep copies of your favorite iTunes?