ITunes and Three Hard Drives...

Is it possible to do this: One iTunes Library containing music and video content. I want to keep all music files on one hard drive (A) all movie files on another hard drive (B) and all TV shows on another drive (C) and have the iTunes Library file remain on the primary hard drive? Is it possible to use the iTunes application to see all the content of all three drives if all the drives are plugged into the computer thereby freeing up space on my internal hard drive? Many Thanks for your input.

zootopia wrote:
Is it possible to use the iTunes application to see all the content of all three drives if all the drives are plugged into the computer thereby freeing up space on my internal hard drive? Many Thanks for your input.
Yes it is possible. However, iTunes does not have any facility for putting certain kinds of content into certain drives, so as you add new material you will manually have to put it in the right place.
Also, to keep your stuff where you put it and only where you put it, go to Preferences and turn off the options for "Keep..." and "Copy..."

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