Playing but not copying file from other drive?

How can I play an audio file or a video off an external hard drive connected directly to my mac or accessed over a wireless network without the file being copied to the mac that it is being played on?
Thanks.

Turn off the option in iTunes to "copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library" in the iTunes -> Advanced -> General preferences). Then when you add the track to iTunes, it won't be copied to the internal drive.

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Hi,
I use LR 2.7. I want to copy one file from one drive to another drive with the same file name. I thought you could drag the file, but it doesn't copy over the file in the other drive, can you explain what I have to do?
Also, I tried to import the folder into another drive, but it doesn't copy the keyword tags. Is there a way to do this?
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Barb

Hey Barb,
Well, if you use the Year/Month/Day/pictures_here format, none of the folders contains a massive amount of folders. It's not the number of folders that generates problems, it's having them all in _one_ folder that creates slow-down issues. Imagine if you had a deck of cards; look for one card... you have to go through all 52 cards to find it. But, if you broke it down into the 4 groups, you only have to go through 13, which is lots faster. Now imagine going through 15000 instead of 52...
Look at the way lightroom can automatically import by date; it has several preset formats. If you pick one of those, then when you import new photos, it will automatically create any missing ones, and you have lots less to do.
Depending on how much work you have already done, you might consider making a new catalog and just importing all of your photos again, and let it create everything quickly for you.
You could save all of your "edit" changes by writing out all of the xmp files first. But with 15000 files in one directory, this will double it to 30000 (one per image!), but will preserve all of your edits if you choose to make a new catalog approach.
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I suggest you to run a malware check..
May be its due to this malware "ZeroAccess rootkit/Sirefef"... What it does is it will block downloading and it will block you from visiting to some site...
Download and transfer this....
Use one scanner at a time
Download hitman pro 3.7  from uninfected pc and transfer to you pc and install (shareware and can be activated for 30 days free)and have a
full system scan.. http://www.surfright.nl/en
alternatively you can use hitmanprokickstart usb bootable
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use malwarebyte  downloaded from uninfected pc and transfer to you pc and install and have a full system scan http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/
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use adwcleanerand  downloaded from uninfected pc and transfer to you pc and install and ave
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use Junkware Removal Tool  downloaded from uninfected pc and transfer to you pc and install andhave a full system scan
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And/or use TDSS Killer  downloaded from uninfected pc and transfer to you pc and
install andhave a full system scan..: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-tdss-tdl3-alureon-rootkit-using-tdsskiller
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If everything fails, you can use offline bootable resccue cd and do a full system scan...
https://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/rescuedisk
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-defender-offline-faq
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I am trying to copy some files from my C drive to the Network i.e. M drive.
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ELSE
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The question that comes to my mind is to ask if this project is actually open in Captivate while you are trying to do this. My thought is that if it's still open, perhaps Captivate has a connection and something about the process of copying the file is causing something in the process to gag.
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Error copying files from flash drive

I'm not entirely sure this is a Windows compatibility problem, but it seems plausible. We have an external USB drive that is used to carry files back and forth between home, where we have a MacBook, and my husband's job, where he has a Windows machine. He has had a problem on several occasions copying files between the external drive and the hard drive. If he copies an entire folder, the copy will sometimes throw an error and then abort the copy process. This then results in anything that previously existed in the target folder and didn't get copied being completely wiped out (instead of them just being left there).
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I'm trying to backup the files I have on an external drive and this has turned into ****, I feel I'm a Windows user all over again.
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I am using the method 'cl_gui_frontend_services=>file_exist' to check whether a file exists in frontend machine or not. This method works fine and gives corerct result when i keep the file on desktop and provide the path of the files as parameter to the program but it is unable to check the existance of the same file if kept in C drive under folder program files e.g.(C:/Program files/Documware/Barcode.exe). Is this a limitation of the method or is due to some restriction/access permitions at system level that files could not be read from program files in C drive . kinldy provide your useful inputs if any one faced same issue and what is the solution for this problem .
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Hi All
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I have checked the mentioned
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>
Lokesh Gupta wrote:
> 2. Single global transport group is configured for all the systems
>
> Lokesh
Hi,
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