Problems Moving iTunes Library to External Drive
I moved my iTunes library to an external drive to free up space on my iMac, following the instructions http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1449.
When iTunes completed copying the files, I shutdown iTunes, and copied the previous iTunes library folder to the trash, as directed in the guide.
The problem is, when I re-started iTunes, I got the message "The folder containing "iTunes Library" cannot be found,...".
Step #15 of the guide suggests files needed to be brought back from the trash, so I copied the entire iTunes library folder structure back to the original location, which made iTunes happy.
But I need help to find out which file(s) from the original iTunes folder structure are required, since my goal is to free up space used by the iTunes library.
The files in the iTunes library folder I moved include the following:
iTunes Library.xml (Microsoft Excel Workbook)
iTunes Library (document)
iTunes Library Extras.itdb (document)
iTunes Media (folder)
Album Artwork (folder)
Previous iTunes Libraries (folder)
iTunes Library Genius.itdb (document)
Please help me understand which files are needed, so I can remove the rest.
I am running iTunes 10 on 10.6.8
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