Moving and adding files to iTunes help...

[shorn]

Hi all,

I've been looking into Hazel as a way to help automate my workflow of adding files to iTunes, however I have a set of requirements that mean it is not straightforward.

My iTunes library is too large to contain all my video files, so I have TV Shows and Movies on two separate external hard drives. (TV Shows on one and movies on the other)

When I have processed my video file (an m4v that has been created in handbrake and tagged in iDentify) I move it to the relevant external drive, and then add the file to iTunes as a referenced file. (By holding down the option key as it is dragged into iTunes)

Is this possible to do using just Hazel?

Ideally I would set up a rule that processes the file based on something like a tag. If the video file is a movie then I could tag it red which would initiate the move to the movie external drive, with a different colour tag for TV shows.

I can work out how to do most of the moving of the file rules but I'm not sure how I can add it to iTunes as a referenced file.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

[Mr_Noodle]

Hazel goes by the settings in iTunes so you will have to set up iTunes to copy or not copy in this case. It can't really do it on a case-by-case basis.

[shorn]

OK, thank you. I originally set up iTunes to copy to library so my Music was copied to the library, but I guess I could change that.