Can I upload songs into iTunes from an external harddrive? I don't feel like loading my internal HD with more music, but I guess loading songs into iTunes basically puts in on your internal HD, so what's it matter, correct?

I havent bought my external HD yet but that is one of the reasons why I am getting one. I would assume it would work, but now I am curious to see the answers

Can you move Itunes over to your Ext HD?

I think that you can upload songs into iTunes from anywhere on your computer. I believe that you just consolidate your iTunes library.

I don't know if you can keep iTunes itself on an external harddrive, but you can certainly keep your library of songs (which is what takes up memory room) on a harddrive.

J

You can even erase the songs out of the folder and just keep them on your IPOD if you want to. It's not recommended, but it's possible. Like Obama, with a MAC, anything is possible!

You can put your iTunes library on an external or even networked hard drive. I have had problems where iTunes could not see the library and had to rebuild before so I don't do this anymore. I will need to again because my laptop is running out of space and I've ripped a bunch of movies for my iPhone.

You can copy your tunes from an external drive by simply dragging the songs you want into an open iTunes window. Be aware that iTunes will copy the files and not just point to it.

Guys...I HIGHLY recommend that you have your External hard drives formatted in FAT32.

They'll go with you from computer to computer..PC to Apple without a hitch.

You can import your songs into iTunes from your hard drive. They will become unavailable with a (!) symbol when you detach the drive from a network or pc that you brought them into from.

^ good point but be aware that FAT32 has size limitations.

Huh?

Partition?

I store my music library on a 16 gig zip drive

I'll tackle this later. I can't get my PC to even open my Maxtor OneTouch (40GB) portable harddrive. Worked on my office PC, but not at home. However, when I go to "safely remove hardware" it does recognize that the Maxtor is plugged in. I just can't open it looking at the list of drive in My Computer. Aarrrrgh

Is it FAT32 or NTFS?

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Managing lots of partitions for some can be a pain on a TB+ sized drive. JAT.

http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/38803/understanding-file-size-limits-on-ntfs-and-fat.html 

"With that 4GB figure stuck in my head, I went to my accustomed research tools and found plenty of references to the FAT32 4GB limit. To back up that number, I searched the Microsoft Web site and found numerous articles confirming that the file-size limit on FAT32 is (2^32)-1 bytes, or one byte less than a full 4GB.

The confusion about FAT file size seems to stem from the fact that FAT16 has a 4GB limit on partition size, whereas FAT32 has a 2TB limit on partition size. A large number of my respondents appear to have confused "partition" with "file." To add a little additional confusion, many respondents commented that they're running large drives as one partition on FAT32. In these days of inexpensive 120GB+ hard disks, I guess my definition of "large" differs from that of these readers."

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Email me Dave.

later, doc...we're off to church (frees our Sunday up), then off to a surprise birthday party.

re 14:

FAT 32 will support drives up to 2 Tb in size but Windows 2000 Professional and XP Professional cannot FORMAT a volume larger than 32 GB in size using their native FAT32 file system.

Not true n00b...not true.

I've got several ext. hard drives that range from 250 to 500gb and they're all formatted FAT32.

Even helped a friend with his 1TB ext. hard drive and that too is FAT32.

DMV, are you using a 3rd party partitioning utility? That would work but they usually use a 64k block size instead of the 4k that XP uses. Not really a big deal unless you have tons of small files.