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moving music files to another drive

I want to change the drive that my music files are but do not want to lose the ratings and genre changes I have made.

itunes-OTHER, Windows 7

Posted on Jul 14, 2012 4:26 PM

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Jul 18, 2012 1:25 AM in response to La Morena

The Ratings, Genre and some other metadata are store in the iTunes library.itl file

Read this Apple support Article in iTunes library locations


You can move to another drive, then update the Media location in preference.

Read this Article for Moving


You must tick Consolidate Files, as in step 10.

or else

In the library folder, you will see exclamation marks on all your songs, indicating missing file,

but just click on the first one, click locate.

Then iTunes will ask you if you want to locate the rest - > click ok.


Good Luck!

moving music files to another drive

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