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Question

iTunes Win 7 Home Prem 64 bit & external hard drive

Jun 24, 2013 8:55AM PDT

Hello

Friend's hard drive needed to be replaced - Dell Inspiron N5010. Prior to replacement, everything was backed up to external hard drive.

For better organization, & improve space, speed performance, decision was made to store itunes, docs, pod casts, photos, etc. on external USB drive.

I am not familiar with itunes, (downloading, saving procedures).....

Question:
Can itunes be safely stored on external storage drive? Will they be able to be easily retrieved downloaded to ipod?
OR
What is recommended?


THanks for any input,
NT Saves

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No.
Jun 24, 2013 9:26AM PDT

The question was OK till you wrote "stored." Without backups and how folk call such things storage my answer is it's not safe. Only when the owner learns to keep spare copies on other devices could I consider this being moderately safe.
Bob

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Disregarding your use of Safely and Stored,
Jun 24, 2013 11:13AM PDT

the iTunes program would have to reside on the Boot volume, along with the other programs, and is quite capable of managing music, podcasts, video, etc. that are located on an external drive.
The external drive would be where the iTunes Library, which contains all those things, would be housed. iTunes would access them and display them in the same way as it did before the drive crashed.

Speaking of which, couldn't the external drive, the one you are referring to as Storage, be liable to suffer the same fate as the aforesaid internal drive? Without a backup that drive is nothing more than a temporary holding area for data that is about to be lost.

P