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I store all my photos (iPhoto) and music (iTunes) on an external FireWire drive. Normally the drive is attached to my iMac, but when I travel, I take the external hard drive and hook it up to my laptop. I want to have my iTunes work whether or not the drive is attached, and have it work automatically.

The quick summary of my solution is:

• Move ~/Music/iTunes to ~/Music/iTunes.local
• Move ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library to ~/Pictures/iPhoto_Library.local
• Make a link from ~/Music/iTunes to ~/Music/iTunes.local
• Make a link from ~/Picutres/iPhoto_Library to ~/Pictures/iPhoto_Library.local
• Write a script to change the links to the appropriate library upon mount
• Write a script to change the links to the appropriate library upon unmounting the external disk
• Use Lingon to make my mounting script run when a disk is mounted.
• Use Lingon to run my unmounting disk when...
  
  
  
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