Moving iTunes to an external drive

If you're an iTunes user whose appetite for music, movies, and podcasts is outstripping the capacity of your computer, it might be a good time to think about offloading that library to an external hard drive or a separate internal drive. If you do it right, the process is relatively simple, although the transfer time could take an hour or more, depending on the size of your collection.

To walk you through it, here's a step-by-step guide on how to move your iTunes library to an external hard drive. This tutorial is also available as a step-by-step video.