You may have heard references in the past to system space and user space. You must choose a location within the User space and not within the various system directories or at the root level of the startup drive. If you’re moving a media library to a new location on the startup drive, that’s possible, too, with the following restriction: A network drive can lead to a few issues, though, so for this article, we’ll concentrate on moving the media libraries to an external drive. About User Spaceįor the most part, the media apps allow you to move their libraries to just about any place on your Mac, to an external drive, or even a network drive. One way to manage this problem is to move the media apps libraries to a new location that has plenty of free space to house your ever-growing collection of music and videos.
The point is that if you have a large media collection that you’re using with Music, Apple TV, or Podcasts, you may run up against the limited space on the startup drive.
