How to bulk change locations of items in iTunes 11
I juat bought a new iMac to replace my elderly MacBook Pro, and have found the upgrade process to be a complete nightmare. Migration Assistant was next to useless when transferring directly from the old to the new, I had to restore from Time Capsule in the end. Anyway, the specific iTunes problem I have is this: my iMac has a 256Gb SSD and 1TB secondary HD, and Migration Assistant only seems capable of writing to the first disk, in other words, the SSD. My MBP had a 500Gb HD, which was nearly full, so obviously I had to be fairly selective about what went on to the SSD. In the end, I used file synchronisation to copy the iTunes library over my network on to the 1TB HD, then pointed iTunes's media folder location setting at the new location. However, although iTunes lists all the movies, podcasts, TV shows etc, iTunes cannot find the location of each one, instead it tries to open up a connection back to the old laptop.
Now, if I click on a file and try to open it, it will do just that, trying to open up a connection to the old laptop (which is now switched off and put away), after a moment it will complain it can't find the laptop, and if I then say OK to that message, it will suddenly decide it does know where the file is after all, and point to the correct location on my 1TB HD.
So, is it possible to get iTunes to automatically update all the file locations, without having to click through each one and wait for the 30 second or so timeout?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)