Itunes ssd

Hello.  I installed a 750GB 7200 HDD and 256SSD in macbook pro 8,3.  OS Mountain Lion on SSD in old HDD bay, with iTunes app on SSD, and more than 2,000 songs on HDD in old optical by.  I cant get the app to find the songs on the HDD.  Help? Regards.  Peter

Problem 1.
You can redirect <Profile>\<AppData>\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup to a folder on another drive using NTFSLink (shell ext. might only work on XP) or Junction (cmd line tool).
In essence you move the existing folder to a new location, create an empty folder where the old one used to be, then get the operating system to link the two together and silently redirect any file operation on the old location through to the new one.
N.b. Do not try this technique with iTunes library content, it doesn't work.
Problem 2.
The iTunes-iOS device ecosystem is not designed to support syncing with multiple libraries. The answer is to use a single portable library which you keep backed up and can move with you when you get a new computer.
Feature suggestions go to iTunes Feedback.
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