Q: I cannot see my library which is on an externa drive. .

Can anybody help, I have used an external hard drive for all my music (all formats). It is normally plugged through my laptop. Have recently bought speakers for the desktop and have now downloaded itunes to it with the intention of using it.

I have plugged the external drive in and changed the library folder in preferences/advanced to point at the hard drive. This did not work.

Tried holding down the shift key on start up and changing it that way, it still didnt work. There seems to be no itl file in the folder on the external hard drive.

So tried creating a library by pressing shift on start up. When opening itunes now it just has a generic screen asking me if i want to start downloading or ripping CDs.

I am sure it is something very simple that I am just not getting?

Oh and also set up sharing as well, still no joy.