iTunes is making copies of videos instead of just pointing to original ones?

[kat.hayes]

I use an external drive to store lots of videos. I end up dragging some of these videos into iTunes so I can synch them to an iPad and I notice that inside my iTunes folder there is a Home Videos folder with copies of all of the videos I dragged in there.

1. Can I delete these videos without iTunes removing them from my iPad?
2. In the future, when I want to put new videos into iTunes so I can get them onto an iPad, how do I do this without it making another copy of the video and instead just reference the original video on the folder of my drive?

Thanks.

 

[iRaynor SK]

Hello,

I wrote about it at my blog, just look at second screenshot in my article at https://comp-blog.com/index.php/2016/07/28/sorting-music-by-folders-with-itunes/

Hope it helped

 

[26139]

Is copy to iTunes music library checked under Preferences, Advanced Preferences?

If so, turn it off, move the ones already copied to your computer to the trash, and re-add them from your external drive.