I just bought a 250 GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD and a 500 GB WD Black HDD to replace my 7 year old 630 GB Seagate HD. I want to use my SSD for the boot drive/OS and some games, and the WD HDD for everything else. A lot of the stuff on my old Seagate HDD is expendable, but one thing I wanted to do was move my iTunes library over from my old Seagate HDD to my new WD HDD. I know how to traditionally do that via this link http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4527 but having an SSD as my main OS/Boot Drive has created a potential problem:
When I installed iTunes I changed the target install location from my SSD to my WD HDD. So it installed there. However, after installation, it looks like my iTunes library installed under my User folder on the SSD anyway, even though it installed the program files themselves on the WD HDD. Which makes me think that the only way I can get my library over from my old HDD is by placing it on my SSD, which I don't want to do because it takes up way too much space. How can I make sure that all my iTunes (the library, the program, everything) is installed and accessible from my HDD? I'm sure there some file or folder redirecting to do but I'm not sure exactly how to redirect all my user settings to the HDD, and by doing so, how to avoid conflict between the OS or games trying to access information that I've moved to the HDD. It's sort of a complicated question with probably a complicated answer, but I don't really know enough about how it works to solve it on my own. Thanks!
When I installed iTunes I changed the target install location from my SSD to my WD HDD. So it installed there. However, after installation, it looks like my iTunes library installed under my User folder on the SSD anyway, even though it installed the program files themselves on the WD HDD. Which makes me think that the only way I can get my library over from my old HDD is by placing it on my SSD, which I don't want to do because it takes up way too much space. How can I make sure that all my iTunes (the library, the program, everything) is installed and accessible from my HDD? I'm sure there some file or folder redirecting to do but I'm not sure exactly how to redirect all my user settings to the HDD, and by doing so, how to avoid conflict between the OS or games trying to access information that I've moved to the HDD. It's sort of a complicated question with probably a complicated answer, but I don't really know enough about how it works to solve it on my own. Thanks!
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