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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 990866"><p>The best option is to "break up" your iTunes library into smaller libraries (plural).</p><p></p><p>Pressing "option" when launching iTunes gives you the choice of either creating a new (empty) library or choosing an existing alternate library. This choice will "stick" until you launch iTunes with the option key held down again.</p><p></p><p>So for example I've made a library of music, and another one of radio shows. You could easily do the same thing with podcasts.</p><p></p><p>You could also COPY (repeat COPY, not move) your iTunes library as-is to the external drive, and then use the "option" trick to tell iTunes to use the copy from now on. Obviously you MUST have that drive mounted BEFORE you launch iTunes, but if that works for you, once you've copied and re-pointed the iTunes app to the "new" library, you can delete the old one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 990866"] The best option is to "break up" your iTunes library into smaller libraries (plural). Pressing "option" when launching iTunes gives you the choice of either creating a new (empty) library or choosing an existing alternate library. This choice will "stick" until you launch iTunes with the option key held down again. So for example I've made a library of music, and another one of radio shows. You could easily do the same thing with podcasts. You could also COPY (repeat COPY, not move) your iTunes library as-is to the external drive, and then use the "option" trick to tell iTunes to use the copy from now on. Obviously you MUST have that drive mounted BEFORE you launch iTunes, but if that works for you, once you've copied and re-pointed the iTunes app to the "new" library, you can delete the old one. [/QUOTE]
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