iTunes backup to hard drive
When iTunes asks if I want to backup my purchases; it defaults to backup to CD or DVD... is it possible to change that to an external hard drive... thanks...
Macmini Intel Duo/24" iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.6)
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To back up your iTunes library to a hard disk, connect it to your computer, create a new Finder window, click on the item in the sidebar named Music, or if there is no item in the sidebar with this name, on the item with the house icon followed by opening the Music folder from there. Drag the iTunes Music folder of the iTunes folder to the external drive.
To restrict it to the purchased music, open the Script Editor in the /Applications/AppleScript/ folder and run the following:
tell application "Finder"
with timeout of 3600 seconds
set source_folder to folder "Music:iTunes:iTunes Music" of home
set destination_folder to disk " external disk name"
duplicate (every file of entire contents of folder source_folder whose name extension is "m4p") to destination_folder
duplicate (every file of entire contents of folder source_folder whose name extension is "m4v") to destination_folder
duplicate (every file of entire contents of folder source_folder whose name extension is "ipg") to destination_folder
end timeout
end tell
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To restrict it to the purchased music, open the Script Editor in the /Applications/AppleScript/ folder and run the following:
tell application "Finder"
with timeout of 3600 seconds
set source_folder to folder "Music:iTunes:iTunes Music" of home
set destination_folder to disk " external disk name"
duplicate (every file of entire contents of folder source_folder whose name extension is "m4p") to destination_folder
duplicate (every file of entire contents of folder source_folder whose name extension is "m4v") to destination_folder
duplicate (every file of entire contents of folder source_folder whose name extension is "ipg") to destination_folder
end timeout
end tell
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