Hi - can someone please help me - how can I copy my music collection onto an external hard drive as a back-up. many thanks !
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Well, aslong as you have itunes set to move media into the itunes library when it's imported, you can simply drag your itunes folder from ~/Music to your external drive. Or, more specifically, if you prefer, the media folder within the iTunes folder.
Which part are you stuck on?
steven245 wrote:
- how can I copy my music collection onto an external hard drive as a back-up.
Copy your ENTIRE iTunes FOLDER to an External Drive...
Full Details Here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751
Be Sure the drive is Formatted Mac OS Extended (journaled)
I have tried to drag it across but it keeps saying 'the finder can't complete the operatioon because some data in iTunes media can't be read or written (error code 36).
Have a look at these 2 Videos...
http://macmost.com/moving-your-itunes-library.html
http://macmost.com/moving-your-itunes-media-to-an-external-drive.html
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