itunes and iphoto on external drives

[ewillsteed]

Hi

Running a g4 powerbook on leopard.

My hard drive is full and the majority of space is taken up with itunes and iphoto. I plan to run the libraries from external drives.

I am about to work overseas for 5 months, and want to keep a copy of the music and photo libraries at home for safety. I also want to access the libraries while away. If I take another external drive with me, are there any sync issues I should be aware of, and would there be a problem if I lost the travelling external drive and needed to switch back to the safety backup?

itunes tells me if I delete any songs from the library it will also delete them from any ipod that syncs with the powerbook, so thought it best to check before I do anything!

Would anyone recommend online storage? I need about 40gb in total.

Many thanks in advance,

Ed

 

[skybolt]

Here's what Apple has to say regarding moving your libraries:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301748
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93603

If you do this to both external drives, you should have no problems. When opening iTunes/iPhoto for the first time after the move, hold down the option key while opening and you will be asked to create or choose a library. Once you choose the library on the appropriate external, it will remain the default until you change it back. This also means that, until you manually change the library, iPod will look for the current library on the external. You should be good to go.