Itunes on start up disc

Morning,
i hope some one can help me my son has moved my itunes onto my start up disc. This means that my Mac Book pro keeps saying that my start updisc is nearly full and is restricting my iphone back ups and various other functions. Can somebody please help/advise me how to move it back to its orginial place without recommending a back up.
Thank you

JamesD001 wrote:
Can somebody please help/advise me how to move it back to its orginial place without recommending a back up.
Before you do anything, you should backup your Mac and your should always maintain a regular backup.
That is, unless you do not mind losing all your music (and everything else).
i hope some one can help me my son has moved my itunes onto my start up disc.
Where was it before he moved it back?
Quit iTunes.
Copy the entire /Music/iTunes/ folder to the external drive.
Hold Option and launch iTunes.
Select Choose library... and select the iTunes folder on the external.
You can then delete /Music/iTunes/ folder.
FYI: You should each have your own computer login. Then you do not have to worry about your son (or anyone else) moving/deleting/changing/getting into your info.

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Formatting:
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Process:         iTunes [746]
Path:            /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
Identifier:      com.apple.iTunes
Version:         10.6 (10.6)
Build Info:      iTunes-10604001~1
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Date/Time:       2012-03-08 20:46:33.354 -0600
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Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report:          11626 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           3
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 210 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   3
Anonymous UUID:                      F8BE2D51-825D-41DB-B5FB-20029597D8F6
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Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report:          123810 sec
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If this solves your question, please consider awarding stars, by checking the helpful or solved button on the post. This is not a requirement, merely an expression of thanks.
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Thanks

OK - reading between the lines, I concluded there is a lot of music on your internal hard drive. If that is the case you can free up all that space by moving your iTunes library to the external drive. It's all explained here:
http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-10242259-285/how-to-move-an-itunes-library-t o-an-external-drive/
and here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1751
Some breathing room on that intenal drive should do wonders for its performance.
Good luck.

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