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May 16, 2009 8:00 AM PDT
How to move an iTunes library to an external drive
If you're an iTunes user (download for Windows|Mac) 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 media library.
To walk you through it, here's a step-by-step video and slide show tutorial on how to move your iTunes library to an external hard drive.
Donald Bell is CNET Reviews' senior editor for MP3 players and portable audio, and one half of the MP3 Insider blog and weekly podcast. He also likes getting his hands dirty with digital audio tools for musicians and DJs.
Donald Bell is an electronic musician, a veteran record store employee, and a fearless hardware hacker. He's also CNET's Senior Editor for MP3 and digital audio.
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is there any way to do this on Aperture, and iPhoto? please make a tutorial on it.
thanks again
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by wrenyen
June 22, 2009 8:55 AM PDT
- This video is great. I wish I'd seen it earlier. I transferred my music to external hard drive and then found out that my iTunes library is empty. Is there a way to fix this so I can get all my stuff and settings back into my iTunes library? btw, I already tried changing the location in Preferences and Consolidating. I also tried moving my podcast library back over to computer but it doesn't show up in iTunes. Any help?
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by lazysamare
November 1, 2009 5:04 AM PST
- I also had a similar mishap while trying to transfer the music from my hard drive onto an external drive. I use windows vista and most of my music was in the my music folder in several subfolders(including the itunes folder), so I simply cut and pasted the entire my music folder onto the external drive. I then discovered windows apparently creates a kind of shortcut to the folder in the hard drive where the my music folder would be so I thought everything would be fine and itunes library would be the same as before. But when I opened itunes i found that while the music files that had been in the itunes subfolder were fine, the files that had been in the other subfolders had an exclamation mark next to them and itunes said it couldn't open them because the original file could not be found and would I like to relocate them? This, I discovered, was a helluva lot of work. Could someone please please help me out because I really can't figure out what in the world to do.
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