transfer my itunes to external

I also don't get why, if iTunes thinks the file should be at localhost/Users/<Username>/Music/iTunes/<somepath> then putting it there hasn't fixed things. Has worked for me before... Put sfuff where iTunes tells you it expects to find it, close iTunes, open iTunes, bingo! Every time... 😕

tt2

It's midnight here in the UK, but not yet my bedtime. If you can get it working again on your old system I'll start over.

tt2

No, as long as you let iTunes do the organizing it keeps track of everything that over which it has control.

The main problem I saw with those recorded files is you put them in WAV format which does not retain tags, so they are not labeled internally.

iTunes is going to want to organize your music by artist and album (see tt2's earlier links for folder structure). If it is absolutely essential that you keep your "recorded music" folder seperate then you're gong to have to do a crash course on manually managing music.

The post I gave you at the outset was this one.

Your current structure doesn't easily rearramge into a portable format. It can be done, but Apple's support doc won't tell you how.

Once the library is working again on the old system do the following:

1. Create a folder called iTunes at the root of the external drive.
2. Create a folder inside that called iTunes Media
3. Under iTunes > Preferences > Advanced change the iTunes Music folder to <External>\iTunes\iTunes Media
4. Consolidate the library using File(iTunes?) > Library > Consolidate files
5. Close iTunes
6. Copy the file iTunes Library and the folders Album Artwork and Previous iTunes Libraries into <External>/iTunes (iTunes 7 was a loonng time ago but I don't recall any other supplementary files from back then)
7. Hold down option as you start iTunes choose the library file in <External>/iTunes
   
8. Test the library can access different media. All good? Close iTunes.
9. Eject the drive, connect it to the new computer, option start iTunes and chose the library on the external.

If that works now there are a couple of extra steps that will make it better, but they can wait until the next post.

tt2

Item one in the post above...

Actually better this way...

1. Create a folder called iTunes at the root of the external drive.
2. Create a folder inside that called iTunes Media
3. Copy the file iTunes Library and the folders Album Artwork and Previous iTunes Libraries into <External>/iTunes (iTunes 7 was a loonng time ago but I don't recall any other supplementary files from back then)
4. Hold down option as you start iTunes choose the library file in <External>/iTunes
5. Under iTunes > Preferences > Advanced change the iTunes Music folder to <External>/iTunes/iTunes Media
6. Consolidate the library using File(iTunes?) > Library > Consolidate files
7. Close iTunes
8. Test the library can access different media. All good? Close iTunes.
9. Eject the drive, connect it to the new computer, option start iTunes and chose the library on the external.

A slight change in the order, this way leaves the original working library file untouched on the internal drive.

tt2

Many iTunes library pages??

At which step? On which machine?

tt2

Earlier you said:

my itune on my old mac is working....

everything is working..

At which step did it stop working again? I've numbered them to help troubleshoot. Did you do all the things the previous steps said to do?

tt2

Copying files leaves the originals in places. Step three should not have broken anything.

Yes it is fixable. Because .wav files have no tags building a new library based on them will introduce a different world of pain.

It's nearly 3am here. I'll be back tomorrow.

tt2