I have more MP3 files than I want to keep on my TiBook. I recently conceded the file-management war to my iTunes, letting it put files wherever it jolly well wants to, since that’s more convenient for my iPod. So, does anyone out there have advice that would let me use my external hard drive as the main library for my files? I’d like to be able to keep the main library on my external drive, and just pick up files from it when I want them; but iTunes seems to want to deal only with a single library, and that on my CPU.
This is why I (and plenty of other users) object to file systems telling us where we ought to want to keep our files. We may have reasons and ideas that the file hierarchy doesn’t know about. Grrrr.
Posted by AKMA at May 24, 2003 09:44 PM | TrackBackThis tip may help you. It's not very clear but I think you might get an idea of what to do.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020729085752185
Posted by: Ryan at May 24, 2003 10:18 PMThat’s it exactly, Ryan. Not intuitive, but the basic idea.
Thanks also to Mark and Tom and whoever else suggested ideas.
Posted by: AKMA at May 24, 2003 11:25 PMA variable leads a simple life, full of activity but quite short (measured in nanoseconds, usually). It all begins when the program finds a variable declaration, and a variable is born into the world of the executing program. There are two possible places where the variable might live, but we will venture into that a little later.
Posted by: Barnabas at January 13, 2004 11:36 AMWhen Batman went home at the end of a night spent fighting crime, he put on a suit and tie and became Bruce Wayne. When Clark Kent saw a news story getting too hot, a phone booth hid his change into Superman. When you're programming, all the variables you juggle around are doing similar tricks as they present one face to you and a totally different one to the machine.
Posted by: Theodosius at January 13, 2004 11:36 AMThis code should compile and run just fine, and you should see no changes in how the program works. So why did we do all of that?
Posted by: Andrew at January 13, 2004 11:36 AM