Computer has to relocate music files on external drive

all my music files are on an external drive. When I disconnect and then reconnect my external drive, I get an exclamation mark when I try to play music from library & have to relocate every time. Is there any way to avoid this happening?

snives wrote:
Yes, annoying, wish it would just try to play the **** song whether it had an exclamation point or not.
It is trying to play the song, but it can't play it if it can't find it. If you were asked to get pasta from the top shelf and boil it, only to find the pasta wasn't where you were told it should be, you wouldn't be able to boil the pasta. Of course, you are a human so you could look on other shelves until you find the pasta, but a computer program doesn't know how to do this unless it has been programmed to do so.
Also, if you have your iTunes library database file on your internal drive, and the Media folder on the external drive, you will have the problem you described when the drive is disconnected. If you put all of the iTunes files on the external drive and keep the iTunes Media folder along with the database file, it won't forget the location of your media folder. Of course, you won't be able to open your library at all unless you have the drive connected.

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