Music on external drive but want to use itunes when drive is not connected. How?
I used to be able to do this, but can't remember how it was set up. I have my music on an external drive, but I don't want to have to plug it in everytime I want to access iTunes to use the store or look for apps.
I have already turned on iCloud Photo Library and it works just fine for my iPhone. BUT, what I want is for it work on my main machine, the macBook Air. I do NOT have an iMac or other to store the "system" Photos library. I do Not have room on my internal drive for the macBook Air ("system" library is located on an external drive). I don't want to have to lug that 3 TB drive with me. It also will not let me move the library file. The library file is close to 40 Gbytes and I have less than 20 left on my internal drive (and I don't dare let it get much smaller than this)....
Any ideas as to how to do this?
For my iTunes library, I ran into a similar issue, but I simply started a new library and dragged the files (on my external drive) into iTunes. This told iTunes where they were without copying them to the internal drive.
I would think something similar should work with Photos, but I don't know how to do it.
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"Method Three
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http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
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If this isn't quite what you were looking for, please clarify.
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