Q: Mac won't access hard drive. Media is there.
All my media is located on an external hard drive. The location is G:/iTunes/iTunes music when accessed from my Dell PC. I now want to give my Mac Book (older one) access to my music and ditch the PC. When I connect the hard drive it comes up on the Mac labeled as "MyBook", which is what I named it. I open iTunes, hold down the option key till it says "Choose itunes library." So far, so good. I click Choose Library. However, when I navigate to the external drive under Devices, and locate the iTunes folder I get an error message stating "The iTunes Libray.itl file is locked, on a locked disc, or you do not have write permission for this file."
Just for for the heck of it, I literally dragged all my music and movies to iTunes manually from the hard drive and dropped them into iTunes. They all reinstalled into iTunes and played fine but were placed onto the Mac's hard drive. Now my Mac's drive is basically entirely full. Also, none of the movies or media will let me make any changes to titles, sorting, etc. It's like the files are locked. Also, none of my PDFs, apps, or other stuff transferred.
I also tried doing the same thing from Preferences in iTunes. Went to preferences, Advanced and the "iTunes Media folder location" box says: /users/user/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media. I clicked "Change" and again navigated to My Book, iTunes.
Now in the location window it says: /Volumes/My Book/iTunes
I hit OK. It says updating iTunes library.
Then it comes up with "Would you like iTunes to move and rename the files....."
I've ve tried hitting both yes and no.
Nothing happens after this point. iTunes just stays blank with no media in it.
How do I get my Mac to access my media on the hard drive without having to load everything into the Macs internal drive the way it worked on my PC?
Latest version of iTunes.
2 TB hard drive.
Mac OS X. V 10.7.5
Posted on Aug 6, 2014 6:55 PM