Every time I lose connection to my external drive.....

I keep my music and my videos on an external drive.  However, whenever  a connection to that drive is lost iTunes will change where it looks for my media files; it defaults back to my interna HD.  Is it possible to make it stop doing this?  Almost every time I open iTunes I have to open preferences to check and make sure it's still looking for my content on my external drive.
Thanks,
Brian

Turn on the external and make sure it is mounted before starting iTunes.  This is one of the downsides to keeping iTunes collection on an external drive.

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