Splitting iTunes library?

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My home drive is starting to get full so I've decided to try and split my iTunes library so that my movies are on a separate drive.

I created a directory on the second drive called Movies and then moved all my movies from the directory in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Movies over to the new Movies directory on the second drive.

I created an alias called 'Movies' to this new directory and dumped that alias in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/

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As far as I see it, this should work. But it doesn't. iTunes no longer knows where my movies are and it gives me the option to find them. I can do this manually but I don't really want to have to do it 207 times!

Should this method work? What do I need to make it work?
 
Because if I do that, it just copies the movies back into the library and I'm back exactly where I was to start with. I want to have iTunes organising the library.
 
If you hold down option when dragging your movies/music etc into iTunes, it keeps them in the same location (e.g external hard drive) but includes them in the library as well.

Would something like that be what you are after?
 
Yes, that works to an extent. It just means I have to remember that when I'm adding a movie that I need to add it manually to the correct folder and option-drag it into iTunes. It also means I can't leave applications like MetaX to insert files directly into iTunes or they'll end up in the original location.
 
Create a symlink in Terminal? They're handled differently to shortcuts in OS X so it should work.
 
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