How do I move iTunes Library folder to another location?

Thanks for your help. I read that article, but I'm either not understanding it properly, or what it's suggesting is not what I wanted to do. I had to read it word for word 2 times to make some sense. It's written in a very confusing way I think (or maybe it's just me).

Anyways, I think that article is basically suggesting that I first consolidate my externally located (inside Dropbox) music containing folder into my iTunes Media folder, and then I just move the iTunes folder (which is located inside Music folder) where ever I want to move it to.

This is not what I wanted really. I want the iTunes folder to remain where it is currently (C:\Users\ahmadka\Music\iTunes\ ...), and I just want to relocate the externally located music containing folder from here ...

C:\Users\ahmadka\Dropbox\ahmadka's Music Library\..............

to here:

C:\Users\ahmadka\Google Drive\ahmadka's Music Library\..............

I don't think that article tells me how to do this ..

Okay, I'm still a little confused ..

I think it would be good if the terms can be clarified first (because I'm obviously a n00b at this).

By 'media folder', do you mean the folder called 'iTunes Media' (C:\Users\ahmadka\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media), or do you mean the folder actually containing the music itself, etc (C:\Users\ahmadka\Dropbox\ahmadka's Music Library) ? I'm assuming you meant the latter ..

Also, you said:

"An iTunes library is portable if the library files are in any folder A that is the immediate parent of the designated media folder B"

Later, you also said:

"Now with iTunes closed relocate the library files to the Dropbox folder"

So putting both above together, I assume that the 'library folder' in my case currently is: C:\Users\ahmadka\Music\iTunes ... ?

Assuming that's a yes, you're saying I so move the 'iTunes' folder (currently inside C:\Users\ahmadka\Music) to Dropbox, and then open the Library ITL from this new path (C:\Users\ahmadka\Dropbox\iTunes\iTunes Library.itl) .. ?

Verify everything's still working, and then move both the iTunes and ahmadka's Music Library folders from Dropbox to Google Drive:

So ..

C:\Users\ahmadka\Dropbox\iTunes\ ----> Goes to ---> C:\Users\ahmadka\Google Drive\iTunes\

C:\Users\ahmadka\Dropbox\ahmadka's Music Library\ ----> Goes to ---> C:\Users\ahmadka\Google Drive\ahmadka's Music Library\

And then open the library ITL from there again and it should work ?

But since I want my iTunes Library folder (i.e. the iTunes folder) inside the default Music folder, do I move that back again as it was originally ?

Thanks for your help. Please let me know if my understanding is correct or not.

Okay, thanks for that explanation.

First let me tell you the paths for my specific scenario:

My library folder (i.e. A) (i.e. the one containing the ITL file) is: C:\Users\ahmadka\Music\iTunes

My media folder (i.e. B) (i.e. the one mentioned in Edit > Preferences > Advanced) is: C:\Users\ahmadka\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media

But do note that as I've said above, all my active music is currently in this Dropbox folder: C:\Users\ahmadka\Dropbox\ahmadka's Music Library

For example, here are some music folders/files I have here (just to tell you how it's organized):

C:\Users\ahmadka\Dropbox\ahmadka's Music Library\30 Seconds To Mars\A Beautiful Lie\01. Attack.mp3

C:\Users\ahmadka\Dropbox\ahmadka's Music Library\30 Seconds To Mars\A Beautiful Lie\02. A Beautiful Lie.mp3

C:\Users\ahmadka\Dropbox\ahmadka's Music Library\Game of Thrones (OST)\01 - Main Title.mp3

C:\Users\ahmadka\Dropbox\ahmadka's Music Library\Game of Thrones (OST)\02 - North of the Wall.mp3

etc...

Since the actual songs folder (i.e. C:\Users\ahmadka\Dropbox\ahmadka's Music Library) is not within either the media or library folder indicated above, how does this work with your solution ?

Remember that I'd just like to move the ahmadka's Music Library folder from Dropbox to Google Drive.

EDIT:

Also, you said this in your last post:

"A contains B as an immediate subfolder and the library is portable if all the content that is attached to the library is located somewhere inside this media folder."

While A does contain B in my case, do note that B does NOT contain all the media files. The actual media files are in that ahmadka's Music Library folder, which is currently located outside both A and B.

When I download a new song or album from iTunes, it gets downloaded inside B by default. But then I manually move it from there and place it inside my ahmadka's Music Library folder. This causes the link to the media file to break in iTunes, but I fix this by removing it from my iTunes library, and then re-adding the C:\Users\ahmadka\Dropbox\ahmadka's Music Library folder to iTunes. iTunes then scans the folder, realizes that 99% of the contents were already mapped, and just adds the new addition which I had just pasted into ahmadka's Music Library folder. Doing this everytime is a nuisance for me at times, but I'm now used to it.

Also, I like to keep my actual songs outside in a more 'public' location such as Dropbox, so that I can easily browse to that folder from other synced places (e.g. office, consoles, etc.) to listen to songs, etc.

Okay I can try those steps out. The only issue I see is that towards the end, you're just leaving the iTunes library files in Google Drive too (optionally making an iTunes folder inside Google Drive and placing everything in there). But this is not what I'd like. I would like to move the iTunes library files back to C:\Users\ahmadka\Music\iTunes, so that only the ahmadka's Music Library folder remains in Google Drive. Is this possible ?

The problem with leaving the iTunes library files inside Google Drive is that the folder size is about 30 GB for me, because iTunes stores iPhone and iPad backups. And every device sync will likely change the files, resulting in lots of GB worth of change, meaning lots and lots of upload, etc. So I want to avoid this and just leave the iTunes library files in the default Music\iTunes location.

So I guess after step 9, I move all iTunes library files back to Music\iTunes ? .. And I assume I DON'T move the XML file (as it will probably get regenerated) ?