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<blockquote data-quote="byzantinefalcon" data-source="post: 1522837" data-attributes="member: 304536"><p>Appreciate it, I will check into that. </p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p>At this time the files are sitting in a folder on my desktop. When I tried getting them all into iTunes a few weeks ago, there were difficulties. It did not read all of the files, was extremely slow in processing them, and there were other quirks. It started up, the system seemed to lag, and I aborted the import. Since then I just downloaded a few songs from the cloud to put on my iPod and came here.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Most of my movies are iPad friendly, though there are some that it has a hard time with. I picked up VLC early on, it was the program I have been using for years and it seemed easier that way. </p><p></p><p>I will look into how I can set it up to delete viewed movies/shows off both, but will it delete the ones that are not finished? </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Here is my situation. I have my shows on an external. I then move them from there onto my macbook into the movies folder. Then, I add them to iTunes, which makes another copy of them in the iTunes folder (at least, I believe this is what happens). Can I get into iTunes and prevent it from making copies of the files, or is that necessary for it to 'view' them? Can I just manually move the movies onto the iPad independent of iTunes (since I dont use iTunes to watch them anyway, though I suppose I could).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Thank you, I did not see that when I went looking. I will take a look again.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I have a 1TB external that should do the trick. </p><p></p><p>When I decide to back it up, will Time Machine look at whats on the hard drive from the last back up vs whats on it from the new back up and just delete/copy/replace to make it the most up to date? </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Appreciate the quick response!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="byzantinefalcon, post: 1522837, member: 304536"] Appreciate it, I will check into that. At this time the files are sitting in a folder on my desktop. When I tried getting them all into iTunes a few weeks ago, there were difficulties. It did not read all of the files, was extremely slow in processing them, and there were other quirks. It started up, the system seemed to lag, and I aborted the import. Since then I just downloaded a few songs from the cloud to put on my iPod and came here. Most of my movies are iPad friendly, though there are some that it has a hard time with. I picked up VLC early on, it was the program I have been using for years and it seemed easier that way. I will look into how I can set it up to delete viewed movies/shows off both, but will it delete the ones that are not finished? Here is my situation. I have my shows on an external. I then move them from there onto my macbook into the movies folder. Then, I add them to iTunes, which makes another copy of them in the iTunes folder (at least, I believe this is what happens). Can I get into iTunes and prevent it from making copies of the files, or is that necessary for it to 'view' them? Can I just manually move the movies onto the iPad independent of iTunes (since I dont use iTunes to watch them anyway, though I suppose I could). Thank you, I did not see that when I went looking. I will take a look again. I have a 1TB external that should do the trick. When I decide to back it up, will Time Machine look at whats on the hard drive from the last back up vs whats on it from the new back up and just delete/copy/replace to make it the most up to date? Appreciate the quick response! [/QUOTE]
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