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Add Files to iTunes without Copying to Music Folder
Authored by: zzxx99rr on Oct 03, '07 11:05:44AM

I've been doing this for many months to avoid replicating large video files that are shared in different family member's iTunes. This way, I keep one large drive for all these files (on a USB drive that hangs off of an Airport base station) that everyone can access thru their own itunes.

I also have an AppleTV. Although I can sync any of the movies/shows to AppleTV the actual movie file is automatically copied from the USB drive. Works just fine but I was hoping that just the pointer would get transfered to the ATV instead so I could easily fit everything on to its 40GB disk.

Has anyone figured out a way to have ATV not pull the whole file down and only use the reference like iTunes can? This would make the complaints about the size of the internal disk a moot point.



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Add Files to iTunes without Copying to Music Folder
Authored by: Unsoluble on Oct 03, '07 12:29:53PM

Can't the ATV be set to stream video from the source, instead of copying it? I thought that was one of the major preference options. That's basically what you're wanting it to do, in your case.



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