I have many movies in my Apple TV app that I have purchased. I am trying to make room on my computer. I bought a flash drive that has 128 GB. I am having trouble transferring the movies to my flash drive. What do I need to do, or is there anything I can do to move these films? Thank you for the help.
MacBook Air 11″, macOS 10.15
If you have downloaded copies, then you may copy these files to the external drive, preferably in the same iTunes Media folder structure, or however it is named in TV app: Preferences﹥Files.
For streaming the content, nothing has to be copied, as the library entry doesn’t need a local file per se.
Quit the TV app. Copy the Media folder.
Hold down the Option key (⌥), and launch the TV app. Choose a new library, select the copied folder.
Verify and set the new Media folder in TV app: Preferences﹥Files, so that new files will be added there too.
(If any titles are somehow still unlinked, the TV app will ask to re-link when accessed.)
After changing the location of your media library, and telling the Apple TV app about that, and confirming that it works, then you can remove the dowloaded files from their original location. There is no need to delete items from the library in the app, as that already points to the new location, if you did as described.
did you try downloading again but this time save to your flash drive?
kelseyfromwy wrote:
I no longer have iTunes on my computer. My system has it set up where I have a music app and a tv/movie app.
That's fine. Urquhart1244 gave you instructions on how to do what you want with the set up you have.
Another problem that I had was when I would put the movie on the flash drive it would tell me the 'movie' couldn't be copied because it is too large for the volume's format. I was able to fix this problem and I think copied my movies to a flash drive. Thank you to everyone who helped.
Urquhart1244, I'm sorry about bugging you with all these questions. What I have done is taken the movie from the TV App and inserted it on my flash drive. I have read your instructions and I am confused. I went to the preferences and my movies are copied to my media folder, but I have no idea where that folder is. Would it be on my hard drive?
I no longer have iTunes on my computer. My system has it set up where I have a music app and a tv/movie app.
Will this also work with movies that I have downloaded as digital copies after putting in a code when I bought a Blu-Ray copy?
I have one final question. To help make room on my computer after I have copied the movies to a flash drive is it better to remove the download or delete from my library on the Apple TV App?
how to transfer a full length movie to a flash drive
