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Moving contents from C:drive itunes to D:(external drive) itunes

I used to use a different mp3 player but my brother has been ipod for years. We both shared a music folder on our external drive for most of our music. Recently (not before time I hear you say, lol) I have upgraded to an ipod touch and when I add CD's or songs I've purchased through the itunes store they went into the C:drive of the laptop.

Our laptop is really tight for space so I want to transfer this to the D: external drive (without losing ratings, play counts and play lists). How do I go about doing this without messing about with the D: itunes folder that we both share.

P.s. It's not important to me that the CD's and music I bought go into this shared folder (he doesn't like some of the stuff I like anyway) but it is important that I get this off my limited space C:drive and onto the external hard drive.

Thanks in advance.

Toshiba, Windows Vista

Posted on Feb 14, 2010 7:28 AM

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Feb 15, 2010 1:07 AM in response to wewonit5times

Use the itunes consolidate command to move everything to the exHD.
Stufff that is already on the exHD won't get copied, but the C: stuff will get moved without itunes losing the path.


You'll have to go into C: after verifying that everything works OK from teh exHD, and delete the C: copies. itunes won't delete them for you.


Longer directions and explanation is here:
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to -a-new-hard-drive/

Moving contents from C:drive itunes to D:(external drive) itunes

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