Super Duper and External Drive.

Have a drive that is a clone of my OS. I have a pretty large iTunes library and still growing ! I'm into music (recording) hence lots of external drives. How do i keep my iTunes library out of my Mac's HD and have everything on the clone? Looked on the iTunes support page on here but not really helpful. Wanna keep the mac virtually empty so she can run like new at all times. Thanks for the help

Hey ! Thanks for the help everyone ! David.Austin.Allen I followed your instructions and went with the option given by iTunes to, create new Library or Choose one. I had previously Consolidated, moved all my files to my Clone external drive. Now when i click on iTunes it read's " Folder containing iTunes Library could not be found please create a new one or choose one! I think i am pretty much set thanks to you! One last question though. After all that. Is my iTunes Library still clogging up space on my macs drive even though iTunes is disabled on my internal drive, btw i did erase my original iTunes Library as the support page on here stated ! Wondering if i answered my own question !>? Or will SuperDuper being that the drive is a clone somehow copy everything back into my internal drive ?

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