How can I force iTunes to sync with an specific folder?

I have all my music in an external drive, but anytime I start iTunes, it go to the folder created in the HDD. How can I make iTunes to sync with the folder in the external hard drive?

You cannot sync the two devices over WiFi at all. You can turn on automatic downloads on both devices in Settings>iTunes & App Stores>Automatic Downloads>Apps>On, whatever you download on one device will download to other device as well.

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  • How Can I Force iTunes to Sync Automatically?

    MAC OS X 10.8.2  iTunes 11.0 (64 bit)
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    Don't think you can.  Your best bet is to copy the backup you want to keep to a different location to prevent it from being overwritten.  You can later return it to it's original location and iTunes will recognize it and make it available to restore from.  Your backup(s) will be located at one of the following locations:
    Mac OS: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup
    Windows XP: %AppData%\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
    Windows Vista: %AppData%\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
    Windows 7: %AppData%\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup

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  • Itunes and proxy settings. Itunes keeps the proxy setting from IE and I can't adapt it due to company policy. How can I force itunes to use firefox?

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    How can I force iTunes to make a new time-stamped bacukp which it won`t replace with a next one? I would like to backup my iPhone as it is and erase some stuff from it now but also I want to be able to get it back in the future.
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    Windows XP: %AppData%\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
    Windows Vista: %AppData%\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
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  • Can I force iTunes to sync a video even if it says it's not compatible?

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    I purchased some songs from I-tunes and they show up on my I-tunes list on my computer, but did not sync to my I-pod.  How can I get them to sync to my I-pod?  Any help would be appreciated!  Thank you!

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    Thank you. Actually they are uploading. I had purchased the CD's.  Each lecture is divided into 6 files on the CD's.  I used "Join Together" and Quicktime and joined all of the tracks together for 1 file per lecture.  Those don't exist, as I have them, in iCloud.  So, iTunes is in fact uploading all of these files.
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  • How can I keep Contacts in sync with CardDAV?

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    You're right. Now that I think through it, I'm not sure it is possible as you have duplicates.
    There is a "Look for Duplicates" command, but I think it limits itself to duplicates in the same account.
    You could export all of the On My Mac contacts to vCard, then delete them out of Contacts.
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    Click the button to Review Duplicates when the import dialog appears.
    You can then click the Apply to All checkbox and choose Keep Old. That should import all the non-duplicates and leave the originals on the cardDAV server account.
    I would then run the Look for Duplicates with the CardDAV account selected in Contacts group pane. If you have any that were not identified as duplicates during the import, you should find them with that.
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