iTunes Library Question: Migrating Some Songs

[amagikoen]

I hit 75% of my hard drive capacity in iTunes and decided to put my external hard drive to work. After messing with smart playlists, I decided on five gigs or so to keep on my local computer while moving the rest of the songs to an external hard drive. I thought that if I just moved them to the other hard drive, I could keep one library with only 1800 songs or so available when I wasn't plugged in.

When I tried to play a moved song, it prompted me to chose the location of the item. I was hoping for a more automatic finding process.

I looked at this hint (http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...&query=itunes), but it wasn't quite what I wanted.

Is there any way to make iTunes auto-search for music like it does when you first run the program? Then I could move all I need to move and have it auto-reappear when I plug in at home with my iBook.

Maxwell.
10.4.6, 6.0.3