How to move Pictures/Music folders to external hard disk?

My hard disk is almost full. How do I move Pictures/Music folders in my /Users/myAccount to external hard disk?

For music see this: http://www.macworld.com/article/46248/2005/08/shiftitunes.html.

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If you intend to use this drive only on Mac computers, then, use Disk Utility to erase it and format for Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
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Our iTunes guru Terence Devlin advises the following:
1. Quit iTunes
2. Drag the iTunes folder from your internal hd - located in ~/Music folder - to your external hd (which has to be formatted as HFS Extended (Journaled)). DO NOT delete the original one from your internal hd... yet!
3. When the transfer is complete, press and hold the Option(alt) key and fire up iTunes.
4. A "Choose iTunes Library" window will come up. Click on the "Choose Library" button.
5. Navigate to where the iTunes folder is located in the external hd.
6. Within the iTunes folder, select the iTunes Library file and click Choose...
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751
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http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to -a-new-hard-drive

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Hello B3NN13,
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When you add an item already on your computer to your iTunes library, iTunes places a copy of the file in your iTunes folder. The original file remains in its current location.
You can change this setting so that files are added to your iTunes library without being added to the iTunes folder. You might want to do this, for example, if you prefer to store video files on an external disk but still want to view them in iTunes.
Choose iTunes > Preferences, and click Advanced.
Deselect the checkbox next to “Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library.”
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Right now, I have my music library connected to iTunes on an external hard drive. iTunes is installed on my desktop computer. What I'd like to do is have iTunes wholly on my external hard drive so I could move it back and forth between a laptop and my desktop. I edit a lot of tracks and to make sure the edits carry over, I'd just like it all on the external hard drive instead of downloading iTunes onto both devices. Also I add and delete different playlists with regularity.
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