Running the latest High Sierra on a 2017 iMac with a 1TB hard drive.
I have a 90-year-old user who wants me to convert an awful lot of VHS tapes (Music only, Music Videos, and Movies), cassette tapes, DVD's, and LP's (phonograph records) to his iMac, presumably all under convenient iTunes' control. It might be possible to squeeze it onto his hard drive but only if the movies are reduced to a 480 resolution, with the resulting degradation of quality -- in other words, it's out of the question.
I already received one negative answer, when I tried to rename the Music folder to something else, thereby making the current iTunes installation meaningless, hoping to reinstall iTunes onto his 4TB external drive. I found that you can't rename the Music folder.
I'm looking for help in either doing what I had in mind, or barring that, constructing iTunes so that the core iTunes system, staying on the hard drive, kept all its "data" on the external drive. If nothing like this is possible, I'd just have to have to forget about giving this gentleman the convenience of iTunes, and make it necessary for him to search for old-fashioned files in old fashioned folders.
Any help?
07-03-2018 08:39 PM