Comments on: Storage

By: Lesley

Lesley — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:44:26 +0000

Have you done this yet Gordon? I’d really appreciate a step by step post if you do because my PowerBook has run out of space too and I’m going to have to put most of my music and photos onto an external HD.

By: Paul Livingstone

Paul Livingstone — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:49:29 +0000

Make sure your external hard-drive has NAS capability. That was you can just plug it into your wireless router and access it anywhere on the network (wirelessly).

I hear they even have ones with bitorrent built in!

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:52:38 +0000

Synchronicity. Only yesterday I was scanning the PC World site for backup gadgets. Saw a 1 terabyte thing. Heavens, I can remember when Gigabyte sounded sexy.

Oh and btw, G. You might not be aware that your comment page doesn’t work on Symbian 6 Nokia. Main page fine. Comments readable, but not writeable. Just thought I’d let ye ken.

By: jamest

jamest — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:51:45 +0000

External HDD are teeny tiny these days, but yeah, a whole solution…

My 24″ iMac is fantastic

By: MacDara

MacDara — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:20:56 +0000

Moving your iTunes library to an external drive is easy. All you have to do is go to the ‘Advanced’ tab under Preferences and specify a new folder location for your music (i.e. an external drive). When that’s done, click on Advanced (in the toolbar, not the previously mentioned tab) and choose ‘Consolidate library’. That should copy all your music to the new folder on the external drive.

Once you’ve done that, you’re free to delete your music from the iTunes folder on your MacBook (in my case, I just replaced it with an alias pointing to the drive I keep my music on) — but be sure not to delete the whole folder! You still need to keep the library folder and other stuff there, lest you want to lose all your song info and album artwork!