ITunes stored on Time Capsule, ? lock location for good

My iTunes are stored on my time capsule which is the router for my network. If I always make sure that the Time Capsule is running and opened, then when iTunes is started, all is well. However, if iTunes is not closed or if an iPod is connected even if not set to sync or my wife opens iTunes, iTunes will open before the Time Capsule has been opened. At that point, it opens using the default location in my user location. This is not what you want and then you have to relocate iTunes back to the Time Capsule. You would want to lock the location so these accidents etc don't matter and you do not have to relocate the location. The same would be if you used another external hard drive rather than the Time Capsule.
Is there a way to keep the location set so the only way it would change is for you to change it. Help

One thing you can do is you have Time Capsule listed as a login item. But if you were to open iTunes before the computer connects to the hard drive then iTunes will default back to the internal drive but this way it will occur less. To have Time Capsule as a login item, go to System Preferences>Account>Login Items. Add Time Capsule to the list. And connect to Time Capsule before going into System Preferences.

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