What if you cannot consolidate the files because there is not enough room on the internal hard drive?

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What if you cannot consolidate the files because there is not enough room on the internal hard drive?

I am trying to move my itunes to another computer. I cannot consolidate the files because there is not enough room left on the drive. Can I consolidate the on an external hard drive??? How???

Windows 7

Posted on Nov 27, 2012 6:15 PM

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Chris CA

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Nov 27, 2012 7:33 PM in response to earlfrmtn

Quit iTunes.
Copy the entire /Music/iTunes/ folder to the external.
Hold Shift and launch iTUnes.
Select Choose library... and select the iTunes folder you copied to the external.
File > Library > Organize library... - Consolidate.
Once it completes, connect the external to the other computer and copy the iTunes folder on the external to /Music/ folder on the internal.
Launch iTunes.

That is all you need to do.

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