Changing iTunes backup destination folder

Hi, I am trying to change the backup destination folder from my laptop to an externa drive because I am running out of memory locally. Any advise on doing this is welcome. Thanks.

Believe me I am not an expert here, but seems like there are 2 processes to look at. One is the transit process (loading thumbnails from card to view on screen, and converting selected files to DNG). The second process is writing those files selected to disk. It would appear to me the process of writing to disk has lots of space, so the transitory process must use virtual memory, temp or a cache file and that has limited capacity.
Think you could test this by doing the process twice. Once the normal way to see if it has the usual error message, and once by dividing the process up. (Might have do delete the imported data on disk so each run is new.) Rather than selecting 8 gig of data all at once, try it with 2 gig. If it works at that level you can try it at 4 gig and so forth to see what your upper limit is before you start getting error messages. When reached you can either just learn to stay below it or figure out how to increase the limiting resource.
Interesting question, let us know what you discover. Thanks.

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