This week, between a lot of other projects (the most important was the one involving playing with my 6 weeks old baby girl!), I had to increase the hard disk space on my 2 main devices, the iMac and the PS3.
I have my iTunes Library on a WD 1TB external HD, in order to store the large amounts of TV Shows and Movies (the movie section has seen a great bust in the last period in preparation of her future watcher Sara, with the Disney collection grown enormously). Unfortunately the hard disk space has become almost none, so I decided to invest in a second external HD, this time a 2TB WD Studio Edition. My plan was to move all the TV Shows folder from the 1TB to the 2TB hd, and leave the rest of the iTunes Library on the old disk. The process was fairly simple, move the folder to the new drive, create a symbolic link replacing the old folder and it’s done! In fact iTunes recognized all my TV Shows with no problem, so I thought I’ve solved my problems for the time being… but when I tried to add a new episode to the library, for some inexplicable reason, iTunes refuse to copy it over, saying that it couldn’t find the folder. Despite all the efforts I had to come to compromises, leaving the TV Shows folder on the old drive, and simply moving the “old series” on the new drive, creating a lot of symbolic link, one for each season or series.
Wouldn’t it be simpler if Apple decide to permit us to split our libraries, specifying different folders for our main kind of contents (eg. Movies, Music and TV Shows) !??!
Well, the PS3 part was pretty easy, I’ve replaced the 40Gb internal drive with a new 250Gb, restored the back up (which took 1 hour to make and 1 hour to restore, ugh!), and everything was just like before, except with more space to install games!
