Can't find iTunes songs

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Can't find iTunes songs

I recently moved my large iTunes library to an external hard drive. I followed specific instructions and everything went fine. iTunes sees all of my songs, movies, etc., and plays them. But......when I go to GarageBand, iMovie, and all of the iLife apps. for that matter, they can not see my library. If you click on a song in one of those apps, it says it can't find my iTunes library, and none of them will work.
Is there some way to show these other apps where it is ?
I hate to have to move the library back to my internal hard drive. I looked around in the GB and iMovie forums, but couldn't find anything specific about that problem. (maybe I missed it) I'm thinking, surely I'm not the only one this has happened to. I've heard of people moving their iTunes library all the time on the podcasts I listen to.
Well.......if anyone could steer me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks for your time.

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Posted on May 2, 2008 11:46 AM

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Answer 1

May 2, 2008 12:00 PM in response to Scott Mccollom

Not sure what the "specific" instructions were that you followed - did you follow Apple's instructions? Then you wouldn't move your library, but only the iTunes Music folder. Maybe that's what causes the problem.

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Answer 2

May 2, 2008 2:30 PM in response to Christoph Drösser

Thanks for the response Christopher,

Sorry I didn't explain that too well. Yeah, it was Apple's instructions.
All I did was move the folder that holds all of the music.
I left everything else where it was.

After I read your reply, you triggered something in my memory, and it solved the problem.

What I "forgot" to do was delete the old iTunes Music folder. So, when I went back to look , I discovered that I had my old XML file in that folder I didn't delete, and a new one (outside the old folder) that I'm assuming iTunes created when I moved my music to the new location. I'm thinking that the old XML file was causing the problems, as all of the iLife apps were using it, and there was nothing tied to it anymore. Could that have been what it was ?

Everything seems to work alright now.

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Answer 3

May 2, 2008 2:36 PM in response to Scott Mccollom

Yeah, seems like that was the solution! Good you got everything working.

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