Splitting the iTunes Library using aliases or symbolic links
I imagine—but have not tried it in fear of loosing valued metadata—that I can replace the ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library/TV Shows/ directory with an alias (or I would possibly need to use a symbolic link) that points to a /Volumes/ExternalDrive/TV Shows/. This way, I imagine that iTunes would copy new content to the external drive, and load content from that drive too. When the drive is not connected, I would just get an error message claiming the resource/file is not available.
Coming from a Linux background, the above scenario would most certainly work. I am—however—not very familiar with either iTunes nor the HFSP file system.
Can anyone who have tried implementing a similar scenario—or who is not afraid to experiment with their iTunes Library—please test and see whether this actually works? or explain why it does not work, and what would be required to make it work. Thanks in advance!
aliases will most certainly not work. symbolic links might although I had a bad experience using them with itunes. when I symlinked a folder for a particular album to an external itunes played those songs fine but when I bought a new song from that album iTunes created a new folder on the main drive instead of using the existing symlinked one. this doesn't happen with regular itunes album folders - I double checked. I don't know why that is.
I'm afraid you'll run into the same issue with the TV Shows folder but you can try and see if it works.
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