moving music to external drive
I have a new MacBook Pro and a new external drive....I'd like to move where the music is stored from the hard drive to the external drive...can anyone help me do this..?
MacBook Pro 15”, macOS 10.15
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I have a new MacBook Pro and a new external drive....I'd like to move where the music is stored from the hard drive to the external drive...can anyone help me do this..?
MacBook Pro 15”, macOS 10.15
Move the folder ~/Music/Music to /Volumes/<External Drive>/ then hold down option as you launch Music, click the button to choose a library, and open the library file /Volumes/<External Drive>/Music/Music Library.musiclibrary. You can repeat with the TV app, ~/Movies/TV going to the external drive and then accessing /Volumes/<External Drive>/TV/TV Library.tvlibrary by holding down option as you launch. Note with Catalina you won't have control over where Podcasts, Books, or Audiobooks are stored.
tt2
Move the folder ~/Music/Music to /Volumes/<External Drive>/ then hold down option as you launch Music, click the button to choose a library, and open the library file /Volumes/<External Drive>/Music/Music Library.musiclibrary. You can repeat with the TV app, ~/Movies/TV going to the external drive and then accessing /Volumes/<External Drive>/TV/TV Library.tvlibrary by holding down option as you launch. Note with Catalina you won't have control over where Podcasts, Books, or Audiobooks are stored.
tt2
Note with Catalina you won't have control over where Podcasts, Books, or Audiobooks are stored.
tt2
If I recall correctly, tt2 said in an earlier post you could try re-assigning these as music files if you are desperate for space. It may take a bit or work though.
Not really rocket science. It's a matter of dragging a folder from one place to another (drive to drive so that will copy it), then holding down a key on your keyboard while starting the Music app one time and choosing the place you just copied the folder to get it to start using that place. Apart from the copying the whole process should take about 4.35 seconds.
like landing on the Moon itself for my old dumb ***...but you do make it seem easy.....let me ask this, then......after I do all of that then when I look at storage on the new macbookpro where it now shows 80some GB of music that will go away, right...? If I, somehow, manage to do this Moonlanding...?? My only reason for wanting to move the music...and everything else I can to the external drive is to keep the hard drive , basically, as empty as I can...?
Yes, if you move the Music folder from <User>/Music/Music to <External>/Music then it only takes up room on the external drive. Use Cmd-drag-drop to move the folder from one location to the other, or copy first, then delete the original.
tt2
thanks for trying to help...I'm in way over my head on this.....
moving music to external drive