My external HD is approaching 95% fill. What next?

I have several WD Mybook HD's. I also own a huge CD collection that I am importing into iTunes. If I connect the HDs, can iTunes use multiple iTunes folders? I am halfway through my collection and know there isn't enough room in this drive. Can I create multiple iTunes Folders, and place them in different drives? If I do this, will iTunes continue to list all the content in the folders? It doesn't seem possible that the iTunes folder has to be entirely on one drive, right?

Eiher follow the instructions in this article, or turn off the option in the Advanced section of the iTunes preferences to copy the files to the iTunes music folder, drag the songs from the CDs to the drives in the Finder, and then drag them into the open iTunes window.
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attempted to use I tunes, every selected a song from the library resulted in a
message stating that the file couldn't be located. After following some of the procedures
explained in this community I was able to reconnect the library back to where
the associated music files are presently stored. However, there are still 2
problems that need to be corrected. 1) Every song file now has a duplicate. One
file works and the other file will result in the same message stating that the
file couldn't be located. Before there were 4,000 songs in the library, now
there are 8,000 songs. I need to eliminate the 4,000 dead song files. 2) All
the playlists are still associated with the dead song files which makes the
playlists unusable. Can the playlists be reconnected to the usable files
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So am I understanding correctly?
You used your iPod as a hard drive (drag and drop) instead of having iTunes install the music?
If you used drag and drop your choices are different than if you used iTunes to transfer.
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Since I have installed Lion onto my iMac it's impossible to to copy any video file from the mac to an external support (ups-stick, Timecapsule). What's happened? What can I do?

Since I have installed Lion onto my iMac it's impossible to to copy any video file from the mac to an external support (ups-stick, Timecapsule). What's happened? What can I do?

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I was trying to say that as I have the connection kit (bought for camera use so no loss for me)
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G5 upgraded to Leopard - failed - installed Tiger on EHD - what next?

When my G5 iMac failed, the repairers put in a new power supply and a new HD. But they had no Tiger instal disks and I didn't think to supply mine. So they gave me Leopard instead (but no disks). Since then I have seen faults develop, mostly at login :
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Today - I tried to login, it got as far as the 'spinning gear' and then made a loud fan noise. Switching off, on, trying again, didn't work : I got the same thing every time.
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At this point I have decided to halt. Email on the Mac uses Mail 3 (for Leopard) so I dare not try to access it using Mail 2 (Tiger) from the eHD. iLife on the Tiger install disks / eHD is earlier than the iLife 06 I have been running, so I am not going to run those either in case I mess anything up. I am running Safari on a Windows netbook. I am not going to risk iTunes.
Now that I am running Tiger from my eHD, but not daring to do much except access my documents, (I can get some email, and use Safari on the Windows netbook) - what should my next move be? Obviously the hardware of the Mac seems to be ok - the HD shows up and everything on it seems fine as far as I can see. It just won't boot Leopard any more.
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Hi
+" . . . but not the contents of other accounts on my Mac's HD (the usual red 'no access' symbol)"+
You should be able to get around this by simply selecting the internal drive and selecting Get Info from the Finder Menu. At the bottom of the resulting window you should be able to select the "Ignore Permissions on this drive" option. Failing that you could enable root (use NetInfo Utility to do this) and log in as root. You then have access to everything. Copy off what you want to the external drive.
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http://www.bombich.com/
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http://www.alsoft.com/diskwarrior/
+"How do I get it to launch that way once I've switched everything off?"+
Select the drive you wish to boot from using the Startup Disk Preferences Pane. Alternatively when switching on your computer again hold down the alt key and select the relevant drive.
Tony

HT201210 Restore me when I'm trying to fill his next character . The disk you are attempting to use is full If I have 20 GB of memory.

Restore me when I'm trying to fill his next character
. The disk you are attempting to use is full
If I have 20 GB of memory.
thank you.

Hi and welcome to Apple Discussions.
Irrespective of your iTunes downloads you are going to run into serious problems with only 1GB of free space. The general recommendation on these forums is that one should have 10% free space as a minimum or 15% as an ideal.
Having as little as 1GB could result in system corruption or, at worst, HD damage. I recommend that you free up some space as a matter of urgency.
If you would like any guidance on what is safe to remove post back but a good starter, often neglected, is to empty your Trash.
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Besweet, I'm having the very same problem with 60GB colour which was bought new and worked for 6 months before suddenly just not being recognised by PC. I hadn't changed anything at all.
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