Album Artwork is filling my Mini HD?

I have almost a 1TB music library. My issue is when I "Get Album Artwork" my Mini HD seems to fill up with those files. My music is on an external drive. Is there a way to point all the art files to the external too so the Mini HD doesn't fill up?
TIA

1 - Quit iTunes
2 - Copy /Music/iTunes/ folder to the external..
3 - Hold Option and launch iTunes.
4 - Select *Choose library* and select the iTunes folder you copied to the external drive.
iTunes will use this folder from now on.
Before you launch iTunes, you can also drag all your music into /iTunes/I/Tunes media/ folder on the external and iTunes will use this folder for everything from now on.
After you launch iTunes, go to ITunes prefs > and set the ITunes media folder location to /iTunes/I/Tunes media/ folder on the external.

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