Showing files without copying them to internal drive?

I was wondering how I can only show files in my iTunes library when the drive they're on is present and plugged in. For example, I have season one of House (50GB) and I have shown the files in my library (alt+dragging) and that means that the files are only watchable when the drive is plugged in and I want them to not be visible when the drive isn't plugged. I was wondering if there's any way to do this?
Thanks!
~Daniel

Not that I know of. Maybe you should have a second library for those files.
To stop files from being copied, hold down the option key while dragging them to iTunes. Ten you just have to live with the exclamation mark for whose files when the drive isn't attached.

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