I have an old iMac and have been recorded a lot of records and now it is time to get them off my hard drive and put my records onto an external.
I got a new macbook pro and wanted to carry my external around and use where ever I go.
How do you transfer my playlist and all the recorded records to external and them use that as itunes.ough
Can someone walk me through step by step?
I have tried several time and I get the exclamation point.
Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Try this post.
If you want a step by step for your circumstances I'll need a little more info. E.g. details of where your iTunes library database is now, where the media folder is, and whether you've already upgraded to iTunes Media Organization.
tt2
well I have slim G drive and I dragged the whole itunes folder to the external.
I know it is an older itunes operating system.
I am using a new macbook pro 10.7 and have itunes 10.
If I have an older itunes will it that work or should I update my old itunes first?
In theory iTunes 10 should have no problems irreversibly updating the library file to iTunes 10. You don't say how old the other version of iTunes you are using is. Try openeing the one on the external but don't erase the copy on the old Mac until you are happy it is working.
Oh, you do have backups of all your files?
Dragging the entire iTunes folder to the external, then holiding down Option as your start iTunes and connecting to //iTunes/iTunes Library should work. That assumes the folder was in a typical layout before you started. If your iTunes folders were in the old school layout dragging over the entire folder can break links to iPod Games, Mobile Applications and Ringtones. If your iTunes Media (or iTunes Music) folder wasn't inside the main iTunes folder then things get messy.
Once the entire library, database and media, is working properly in a portable format it can be moved between any machine running the same build of iTunes. Once you use it with a newer build on one machine you will need to upgrade iTunes on any other computer you want to access the library with.
tt2
I tried to open my itunes on the new computer and gave me option of choose, which I clicked on the itunes folder I draged over.
Everything came up the artist and song titles but when I click play, the exclamation point happens?
Do you keep everything in a single folder on the old computer? iTunes has several components and they all have to be put in their correct place (best done by dragging over a complete itunes folder) in order to work. If you were manually managing music then it can get messy and manually managing music is best done when you really know what you are doing (and don't need to ask us đ ).
The point of this post is to make sure your original library is ready to be moved before you move it.
Select a single song with an exclamation mark and press CMD-I (or whatever opens) Get Info., cancel when iTunes asks you to try to locate the file. Look at the location given on the summary tab. Now find the true location. Please post back the results. If you're lucky there is a quick fix I can give you, otherwise the library may need to go back to the original computer for some tweaking... Or you can have a go at using the recently introduced and not always successful self-repair feature iTunes has.
tt2
yea I when to my hard drive and dragged the whole itunes folder over to the external.
this is what I got when i clicked cmd i:
"The song âparadiseâ could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?"
Click No or Cancel, then iTunes should show you the dialog box. On the summary tab take a note of Where: iTunes thinks the file should be. Find out where it really is, full path please, post back both values.
tt2
It sounds like your iTunes collection is not properly managed and completely intact inside the iTunes folder. Pieces got left behind when you dragged the folder from the other drive. You will need to follow instructions for consolidating and organizing your collection as in turingtest2's post or as outlined in detailed in the move your library post I linked in my first post.
this is what I got
OK, the problem here is probably caused by the non-standard media folder name, but the non-standard structure below that won't help either.
Is all your media inside records recorded or are there other folders inside the main iTunes folder apart from Album Artwork and Previous iTunes Libraries?
Do you use the same user name with your new Mac? I.e. would it be feasible to move the records recorded folder to Users/christiansturgis/Music/iTunes/ ?
tt2
the few CDs that I burned are in itunes. The recorded records are in a folder in itunes.
All the media should have been inside iTunes Music before you started. No wonder it doesn't work properly! đź
So... Do you already have a user folder called christiansturgis? If not please create the following tree of folders: //Users/christiansturgis/Music/iTunes/ Then try moving a single artist folder from the iTunes folder on the external into //Users/christiansturgis/Music/iTunes/. If iTunes "knows" the files are missing close and then reopen iTunes before trying to access them again. Do these files now play? If so good news. You can repeat for other folders. (If not ignore the rest below and post back details.)
Some housekeeping first:
Once you've moved all the relevant folders from the external drive to the correct path on the internal (don't move Album Artwork, iTunes Media or Previous iTunes Libraries) you can consolidate the library back into the correct folder on the external, (File > Library > Organize Library > Consolidate files) then discard the copies created on the internal drive, once you've made sure everything works properly from the external drive.
Your library will now be portable. đ Back it up to another drive.
tt2
PS If space is an issue you can do one folder of content, consolidate, discard internal copies, and repeat. But check carefully!
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