ChicagoLarry
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I am reconfiguring my system of internal and external hard drives, in anticipation of a switch from Sys 9 to Sys X.
I have 125 gigs of music on an external hard drive.
I want to put Sys X on a 60-gig internal hard drive.
Will I be in trouble when I switch to Sys X because I have more music to put into iTunes than I have gigs in my start-up disk?
The reason I ask is this.... the old SoundJam program doesn't care where I store my music. It will play it from a 1-gig startup disk when all my music is on a different disk. But doesn't iTunes force all my music to be fully loaded into the program? I know it will let you store the music elsewhere, but isn't that basically, then, a SECOND COPY of everything? And won't I have to increase the size of my startup disk to more than 125 gigs just to be able to play all 125 gigs of my music in iTunes.
I hope that's wrong. But I need to know now, in order to know how to config my system.
One reason I fear for how iTunes works is because I know that iPhoto has that goofy requirement of actually having to load into the program ALL THE ACTUAL pictures that you want to watch in a slideshow. You can NOT use it to watch pictures, for example, on a CD. It FORCES you to import all the actual pictures off the CD and into your hard drive. (go figure) If the iTunes similarly forces us to import the full-blown files into iTunes in order to play the music, then I'm in big trouble, right? I have to get a startup disk bigger than my music collection, right?
Thanks. I will appreciate any insight.
By the way, I shared a CD-full of travel pictures with a friend, assuring him he didn't have to import them all, but could just use his slideshow to view them from the CD. Boy was I wrong! Unfortunately, his iPhoto downloaded every last one of them onto his computer! This is just one of the reasons I'm reluctant to switch to X. I fear iTunes will work the same way. Am I right or wrong?
Larry
I have 125 gigs of music on an external hard drive.
I want to put Sys X on a 60-gig internal hard drive.
Will I be in trouble when I switch to Sys X because I have more music to put into iTunes than I have gigs in my start-up disk?
The reason I ask is this.... the old SoundJam program doesn't care where I store my music. It will play it from a 1-gig startup disk when all my music is on a different disk. But doesn't iTunes force all my music to be fully loaded into the program? I know it will let you store the music elsewhere, but isn't that basically, then, a SECOND COPY of everything? And won't I have to increase the size of my startup disk to more than 125 gigs just to be able to play all 125 gigs of my music in iTunes.
I hope that's wrong. But I need to know now, in order to know how to config my system.
One reason I fear for how iTunes works is because I know that iPhoto has that goofy requirement of actually having to load into the program ALL THE ACTUAL pictures that you want to watch in a slideshow. You can NOT use it to watch pictures, for example, on a CD. It FORCES you to import all the actual pictures off the CD and into your hard drive. (go figure) If the iTunes similarly forces us to import the full-blown files into iTunes in order to play the music, then I'm in big trouble, right? I have to get a startup disk bigger than my music collection, right?
Thanks. I will appreciate any insight.
By the way, I shared a CD-full of travel pictures with a friend, assuring him he didn't have to import them all, but could just use his slideshow to view them from the CD. Boy was I wrong! Unfortunately, his iPhoto downloaded every last one of them onto his computer! This is just one of the reasons I'm reluctant to switch to X. I fear iTunes will work the same way. Am I right or wrong?
Larry