Accessing itunes library from a second volume
My macbook at the moment has a single start up disk ie. only 1 volume, but I'm looking into creating a 2nd volume, install leopard on this second volume, then import my itunes library onto the leopard based volume. Then I hope to access the second HD from my inital HD.
Is this possible?
I'm pretty new to the backing up way of things, but since a leopard installation failed I then had to reinstall tiger. So I dont want to install leopard over my existing tiger OS, rather create a new 2nd volume, and have leopard on that. Hope I'm clear enough!
Ben
Hi Ben,
Not clear enough!
Is it that you have all you music backed up on an external HD
(as you speak of a "second HD")?
Anyway that would be your only solution, because if your question is about creating two volumes on the same internal HD (your MacBook's internal HD),
yes it is possible, you can have Tiger on Vol.1 and Leopard on Vol.2, but partitioning process will *erase everything*, so you must back up your music and all important files, first.
As for using iTunes on your Leopard volume, with the iTunes Library and files on another volume, yes, it is possible.
~ deauthorize iTunes from your current system, and authorize it then on your new system.
~ create the user accounts in the same order (in case the user of this iTunes library is not the first, genuine admin account who originally installed Mac OS X. Don't mind this order warning if you're all going from original 1st admin account, to new 1st admin account.
Clear enough?
Axel
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