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Changing iTunes default Library

My music is on. NAS drive and iTunes accepts the library OK under normal circumstances - e.g. close/restart iTunes.

But sometimes, e.g. powering down my iMac or after a power outrage, iTunes resets the library back to its default setting.

Has anyone been able to get iTunes to always use an alternate library path?

Thanks
williewonka
williewonka OP
3,081 posts
 
Thanks Ghost - I've fully tested this out now and the only time it prompts for a library is where iTunes was running when the power is cut.

Even then, I just quit itunes , wait for the NAS to be assigned (takes about 10 seconds in my case) and then restart itunes - voila!

Not sure why Apple couldn't document this - it's pretty simple.
- actually, not sure why they couldn't code it properly in the first place:-)

Thanks for the pointers

Regards
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ghosthouse
4,316 posts
 
Glad you got it fixed. Not sure I had much to do with it, however
williewonka OP
3,081 posts
 
Ghost - it was the part about getting the pop-up prompting for the library
after a restart. On my setup iTunes just started and I went to preferences to
reset the the NAS drive path each time

I had never experienced that pop-up - so I played around until I got it to
display. Once I entered the NAS path in there it never reset back to the
default.

See - every little piece of Info helps - thanks again :-) :-) :-)
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