Can I split where my library stores movies and music?

Hi,
My iTunes library is filling up my HD fast. The HD on my computer is only 1TB. Since I got Apple TV, I've been ripping my DVD's and keeping them in iTunes. That's been eating a lot of disk space. Is it possible to put the movies on an external 2TB and keep my music, iTunes U, etc on the internal HD?
Thanks,

You can.
One way is to go to Preferences/Advanced. Uncheck the box that tells iTunes to move all copied files to the Media folder. Put your movie files on the hard drive of choice.
Then you can get the listings into iTunes. Under the File menu in iTunes you select Add to Library... and find the files where you know them to be. You are adding them to iTunes but the location stays the same. To be sure, after they show up in iTunes, highlight one. Go to Get Info and look at the first tab or Cmd-1. The entire thread of the location of that particular file will be showing. Make sure it reads the way you expect it to.
If you want to make sure all the new music files go to the Media folder you should go back and recheck that box in the Advanced Preferences tab.
There is another way - create a new library and have all files in that library (for your movies) automatically copy to its Media folder, but assign that Media folder (again in the Advanced tab) the way you want. But you can only have one iTunes library open at a time and only those files will be available to Apple TV.

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