Documents and media files on separate drive

How do I set up my MacPro so my documents and media files (iTunes library, iPhoto library, Movies) are on a separate drive from my system/startup drive?

You can move the "Documents" folder to another drive. There is nothing special about any folders, but some applications may expect them to be in certain places, and might recreate them if they are not there. File locations are up to the individual applications. Usually you can set things in the preferences.

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HT1391 How to move my media files to another drive with Itunes 11

I am using Itunes 11 on a Windows 7 PC. My C Drive is full and I am trying to move all my media files to D drive. While previous versions of Itunes seem to allow this, the instructions for doing so with Itunes 11 state that files already on the drive will stay where they are even if you change the location of the media file. Only new files will move to the new location.

About the iTunes library files
Your iTunes library files track the media you add to iTunes, how you've organized it, and other information such as playlists. By default, these two files are in your iTunes folder:
Mac OS X: /Users/username/Music/iTunes/
Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\
Windows Vista: C:\Users\username\Music\iTunes\
Windows 7: C:\Users\username\My Music\iTunes\
Windows 8: C:\Users\username\My Music\iTunes\

Is it safe to transfer captured media files to another drive?

I just bought a 250GB Lacie d2 External Firewire Drive to specifically use on a school internship project.
The client is a local film maker who wants a behind the scene documentary made of the production of his new film. I decided to buy my new fire wire drive just for this project alone.
I'm finding that I've just about filled up the whole thing mostly with all the archive footage he gave me to use as supporting B Roll to the few interviews I've already shot. Realizing that I still have more interview footage to collect I anticipate having to buy a new firewire drive.
My next option is to buy a 500GB drive (same make and model) from my local apple store. The issue is, I'm not sure how to go about handling a project file that would have two seperate capture folders, each one located on it's own drive. Am I asking for problems?
I was thinking that with the new drive, I'd take all the media files in my Lacie 250GB (not the capture folder itself, just the files inside) and just move them over onto the new Lacie 500GB. Then I'd create a new project file on the new drive, recreate my file folder heirarchy in my browser and just "Import" the transfered media files into the brower through the file menu.
Then for any new footage I shoot in the future, I'll just log and capture into this new project file's capture folder. If this is a viable strategy, am I gonna have to seriously worry about the integrity of my old media files being compromised in a transfer from one drive to the other?
By the way, the apple store in my town told me I'd be able to return the 250GB in exchange for the 500GB where the price I paid for the old drive would go toward the new.
If anybody could tell me if I have a sound strategy or not, I'd appreicate it. Thanks.
iMac Intel Duo-Core; Intel Mac mini single-core Mac OS X (10.4.6)

MalibuFrank
I've been wondering what your reasons are in general for having to move project and media files around?
For my own situation, I merely wanted to continue my work on a larger drive as I expect I'll be needing the space. I'd come to two solutions for transfering my work.
One was to disconnect the actual media files in my Scratch Capture folder from the clips in the browser that connect to them via a filepath. Transfer everything through the Finder, then reopen my project from the new drive and reconnect the offline clips in my browser to the media files, but this time using a filepath that would lead directly to my new drive.
I didn't do that though, but I suspect it would have worked and might have been easier than the solution I picked, which was -
I used the Media Manager in FinalCut Pro. Through the Media Manager I just selected my project and all it's work and had it made a copy to a new drive. Actually I never used the Media Manager before but after looking into it's capabilities I'm definately going to have to keep it mind for my future project strategies.
Think about it.

When I change the time zone of the clock, the "Date created" time information for my documents and image files in the Finder window (and in Get Info) is changed. Can I make the time info in "Date created" remain fixed regardless of the clock's timezone?

When I change the time zone of the clock, the "Date created" time information for my documents and image files in the Finder window (and in Get Info) is changed. Can I make the time info in "Date created" remain fixed regardless of the clock's timezone?

When I change the time zone of the clock, the "Date created" time information for my documents and image files in the Finder window (and in Get Info) is changed. Can I make the time info in "Date created" remain fixed regardless of the clock's timezone?

HT1752 i tried updating my iphone 4S to new IOS software on a power book G4 and now it says it cannot restore it, i will loose all my data and media files. What can I do?

i tried updating my iphone to new IOS software on a power book G4 and now it says it cannot restore it, i will loose all my data and media files. What can I do?

You cannot sync an iPhone to an old obsolete PPC G4.

Hello to you all, my Macbook Air won's boot up and upon diagnosis, i realized my startup disk is full to 99% even with 2GB Hard Disk space. It wont also enable me boot into safe mode too. Please help as all my work documents and project files are on HD

Hello to you all,
My Macbook Air won's boot up and upon diagnosis, i realized my startup disk is full to 99% even with 2GB Hard Disk space. It wont also enable me boot into safe mode too.
when i power up, i get this prolong gray screen which wont change screen but remain so. Infact i am handicapped.
Please help as all my work documents and project files are on this machine and i can't afford to loose them all...
Please, should you have any solution please send me the details to [email protected]
Thanks you a millionh times.
Al.

The MBA seems to cause several problems to several users on boot ups
On start up my MBA would not boot up the apple logo came on but only a blank screen appeared no fan i followed several start up recommendations but to no avail so I took the MBA to the nearest Apple repair centre again the same symptoms on start up ......very sorry sir you need a new mother board that will be $500 not feeling confidant in the product declined and was going to put it on ebay for spares.
On return home I pressed the start up button and it started normally everything was working fine i decided to reinstall all the software what has caused the problem I have no idea but it is after several attempted reboots it finally started on its own so don't give up if you have this problem it may come to life

How to embed the Word Document and PDF file into Crystal report?

How to embed the Word Document and PDF file into Crystal report?
I have word doc which having 10 pages. I need to show all of the 10 pages at a time. I tried OLE object but problem is it shows only one page.
Is there any solution to show word doc / PDF file in CR?

Symptom :
When embedding a pdf document into a Crystal Report, only the one page shows.
Reproducing the Issue
Environment:
Crystal Reports OLE object
Cause
An OLE object only displays the first page.
Resolution
Embed multiple objects, one for each page
Or
Use a hyperlink to the object instead
Hope this helps!
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Vinay

I am setting up a new Mac and I want my iTunes Media on a separate drive

I am upgrading from an iMac to a Mac Pro.
On the Mac Pro I have a 120gb SSD boot drive.
I want to put my iTunes media files on a second drive in the Mac Pro.
I have seen instructions on how to put iTunes media on an external drive.
However, I am switching computers and I want to move my iTunes media from the older iMac to a non-boot drive on the newer Mac Pro.
I do not really want to use Migration Assistant because I am making a clean install of all apps and documents on the new machine.
I would like to keep my playlists and podcast subscriptions.
The new machine is running 10.9 and the older machine is running 10.7.5.
I am looking forward to answers that will help this iTunes move work.
Thanks in advance.

Don't move ony the iTunes media folder. Too many issues can occur. Keep everything in the iTunes folder.
Copy the entire /Music/iTunes/ folder from old computer to the secondary drive on the Mac Pro.
On the Mac Pro, hold Option, launch iTunes, select Choose library... and select the iTunes folder on the secondary drive.
That's all you need to do.

Can I partition a hard drive and keep files on separate partition?

That is, can I partition a hard drive and have the system software on one drive, and everything else on the other? That is, have the system software on one drive, and on the other have pictures, music, documents, and all other files other than the system software? Thanks. David

Hi GK1951, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Great question, as a matter of fact it does... or would, but the Devil is in the Details as they say.
IME, OSX works best with 100+GB free disk space, so if that partition scheme cuts that down then you'll lose speed, but ony a few would notice the diff until you get down to 30 GB free space.
I can't say much, but my VM at the moment is 143.55 GB, I've been told that isn't a real number, but hey, it means something!
But there are so many factors affecting this that really, the only rule that seems to hold is Give OSX as much HD Free Space as you can & it'll be happy.
I imagine on the MacPro you could say use the outer Partition of several Disks... one for the OS, one for VM, one for APPs, etc. and gain the most!
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HT1751 How to transfer iTunes media files from external drive to another external drive and bring in the library from the main drive.

I have my iTunes media on an external hard drive while the library is on the main computer drive. I want to move both to a larger external drive. How do I get both together? When I consolidate, it only transfers the media files. Help.

Since I already consolidated, can I just move the library to the root level of the external drive then option click to point to that library? But using that method, all the media files are at the root level along with the iTunes folder. So nothing will be in the iTunes media folder itself. WIll that work?

Moving lrcat and lrdata files to another drive

I am running Lightroom 4 and keep all my photos on an external drive, (LaCie), backing them up to another external, (Big LaCie), but the lrdata and lrcat files are held on my start-up disk, (Mac SSD), for some reason and this is now so full that it is slowing up / stopping the whole computer.
(The Backups folder in the picture above simply holds backups of the data and cat files).
Obviously, I think, it would be best to move the data and cat files to the external disk LC but I am worried to do this and then find that these files will not be found by LR.
Please can someone tell me how I should resolve this issue while my computer still works? Cheers.

The catalogue file can be moved but if you're moving it to an external drive I'd add a word of caution.
It will almost certainly slow the running of LR down unless you've got a fast link external drive. There's noting to stop you copying it to the external drive as an experiment. I'd rename it whilst copying as you don't get confused as to which is which. You only need to copy the lrcat file. LR will rebuild the previews file.
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As for why the catalog is on your SSD, well that's where it will run fastest from (though differences vary from system to system). I have a separate SSD just for my LR catalog.

ILife04 and ILife 06 on separate drives.

I have installed ILife 06 on one of my drives but when I
try to install ILife 04 on the other drive I get a message that ILife is running and I can't install the ILife 04.
I dont see that it's running anywhere???
The reason I'm doing this is to avoid the letterbox in
IMovie HD. I have found that if you inadvertently recorded
on your camera in 16:9 you're stuck with letterbox but if
you open same in ILife 04 it is standard 4:3. I have tried trashing everything (that was ILife)on the drive that I want to put ILife 04 but I keep getting that message. If I dump 06 (on the other drive which may be causing the problem)and then load 04, then reload 06 on the other separate drive will there still be a conflict? Any thoughts?

OK...thanks for clarifying.
Project file should be on your main hard drive...the same one that has the operating system. So if the media drive fails, you still have the project that you can use to rebuild. BUT...backup that project to either the media drive, or another drive (Flash drive) just in case your OS drive fails.
Media, Renders, Exports...they can all go on one hard drive. It is actually better to keep the media and the render files in one area...keep things organized and tidy.
Camera originals...back up on separate drives.

Dups, sharing problems and lost files on NAS drive

I have been trying ot set up a "shared library" on a network storage drive. The process has been painful to say the least I have over 17k music files and 400+ audio books.
My first problem was creating duplicate files when pointing a new PC to iTunes media files. After trying multiple 3rd party software product unsucessfullly I finally bite the bullet and used the iTunes feature display duplicates feature. Because I did not want to delete compliations and greatest hits dups I had to browse dups by album and manally sort through over 7,000 songs. Took me a week to complet but I did it. The larger problem I am now facing is lost files.
I sucessfully had both compurter pointed to the same media folder and everything was working great until I accidentally selected all of my file (yes 17,000+) and proceeded to delete them. I was trying to deleted all of the songs in a album that was duplicates... I caught my error only after a few secs but I am afraid the damage is done. The weird part is the songs are still in the library in iTunes but I now have close to 5,000 missing files icons and when I look for the files in the album folder, they are missing. What is more irritating is not every song from every album is missing. so If I reimport from the original cd (I hope they are not too scratched) it creates dups of the file that are already there and I have go through and do a manual dup clean up again!!!
Anyone have a thought as to where the missing files are (they are not in the trash under deleted files).
Anyone know of a better way to share a large library between mutliple computers and iOS devices without haveing to have multiple copies to sync(i.e. Home sharing).
ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!

Hi Rajnish,
As you mentioned "quota limit", it is set via FSRM or specific function on NAS?
Meanwhile could you confirm the number 185GB is accurate? Sometimes a part of used space is just not calculated. You can confirm with checking the total space on NAS locally.
If the number is correct and quota is set via FSRM, check if it is the Disk Quota which not re-calculated the released space. Try to clear the Quota setting and reconfig with 300GB limitation and see if issue still exists.
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Modifying pages of a pdf document and saving so keeps separate pages

I could use some advice on how to do this. I have a pdf document that has 8 pages. I want to change some things on 4 of the pages. I open in Photoshop CS4 and it shows me the 8 pages. I select the first page I want to modify, change it but when I go to save the changes, my pdf document now saves as just that single page.
I need to be able to modify and save the individual pages but keep the concept of the original pdf file that has 8 separate pages. How do I change a page and "reinsert" it back into the original document and maintain the pages so when I send it as a pdf to a client they can open in Acrobat and scroll thru the pages.
Thanks.

Mylenium’s assessment that Photoshop is not the tool of choice for pdf-editing is correct.
One exception is if the pages consist of no vector-data but (best only one) image/s.
In which case alt-double-clicking the image in Acrobat with the TouchUp Object Tool should open it in Photoshop and on saving there it should be updated in the pdf in Acrobat.

Moving iTunes media files to external drive broke connection

I recently moved my iTunes media files to an external drive. All other iTunes related files were left in my home folder. Everything worked great for about a month. Then, mysteriously, I went to access a movie and it said that it could not be found. I performed the search to my external and the movie played just fine. Somehow, my connection to iTunes has been broken. Incidentally, all media files in my external drive show up in the respective folders in iTunes. They just have exclamation points associated with most of them. Strangely, some of the files play just fine without having to search. Very confused. Can anyone provide a solution to re-establishing my link to iTunes? Thank you very much.
Bill

You had the drive plugged in and mounted before starting iTunes?
Sometimes a link will get broken, but then re-established, such as doing the aforementioned forgetting to start the drive first. When you double click the track it will try again and suddenly find it works again. It can be a nuisance having to test each track this way. You may find that Dougscript "List MIA" will help do this.
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/
I have not seen any successful automated way to re-form truly broken links. You have to either do it by hand or just add the media again. If you add the media again some things will be re-set such as date added (obviously), playcount, etc. I don't use any of those so it doesn't matter to me if I have to do this (and there are tricks to storing them in places where they will be kept).
Why they got broken? One reason mentioned before. Have you re-named anything or moved it? Have you ever had multiple drives with the same name plugged in?

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