APPLE: Please take videos OUT of music folder!!!!

Apple, you're killing me on space. I love that I can download videos but please let me store them in a folder OUTSIDE the music folder!!! I simply cannot store all the music and videos in one place.
I have 83 GBs of music in my music folder. I have a 160 GB external hard drive, 83 GB use for music, 34 GB for photos (in iPhoto)...bring it up to 117 for my 'current' iLife programs. I downloaded one 30 min episode of a program yesterday and that alone was 115 mb. Downloading a hour program would be 230 mb. If I downloaded the entire first season of Desperate Housewives, for example, 5.29 GB... Closing the game even tighter on my 160 GB hard drive!!
You simply MUST allow users to set a default folder for videos elsewhere and take it OUTSIDE the music folder!!

Steve hello,
You say
I don't quite understand why more people aren't sympathetic to what Christopher is saying.
When someone's understanding of what is happening and what is not is flawed, it is hard to make sense of it all... now do not get me wrong as I have no axe to grind but your own understanding is not quite right as well... I will explain...
Apple's current system of saving other media (in this case video) to the MUSIC folder makes storage difficult..
Think of another file, say an Appleworks document, you create it and you save it... where do you save it ?... the program will suggest somewhere based upon file type but you choose where it goes in the end...
The same basic principles are at work here in iTunes... you create it (rip) and you save it (location ?) the only change is you decide in advance where you want files stored by setting the location for newly added files in the preference settings...
the result is exactly the same as all other files on your computer...
and as I said earlier "when ripping or importing files a copy is automatically placed in the nominated location, you have no say in this...
if the nominated location folder is not available a copy will be placed in the home iTunes Music folder and if that is missing a new one will be created and they will be put there..
I fail to see where the perceived problem exists...
for example, If it worked the other way ... you set a music file to download and you are not available when it has finished downloading, where does the computer put the file ?
this should be looked upon as a 'god-send' as any files handled by iTunes will be saved with no further input from the user necessary... you have chosen where with two clicks, in advance.
A thought: whilst it may seem like a good idea to have a command setting in iTunes preferences that locates Music files in this folder and videos in another and movies in yet another one, let alone all the podcasts etc. and other things of the future... it will get very crowded and in a crowded place things can and do get confusing...let's hope they keep it simple... and user freindly
Finally Steve what do you mean by this statement ?
We cannot split our iTunes music Library between two drives (or partitions)..
Why not thousands of other do this all the time including me...
take care Steve .... TP

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