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"Pointing" iTunes to an external drive

Hi - Probably been answered a million times but can't seem to find straight forward answer.


I have a new MBP that I have purposely NOT populated anything to my iTunes library on the internal hard drive (SSD)


I have copied my "master" iTunes library from my Mac Mini to an external hard drive.


I would like to have my MBP use this external hard drive as the source for my music.


Is this simple to accomplish?


Regards,

Jim P.

OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Mar 28, 2015 7:09 AM

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Posted on Mar 28, 2015 8:16 AM

Yes. Launch iTunes with the Option key held down and choose that library.


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Mar 28, 2015 11:31 AM in response to James Palmer2

Moving a library: Quick answer if you use iTunes' default preferences settings: Copy the entire iTunes folder (and in doing so all its sub-folders and files) intact to the other drive. Hold down the option (alt) key (shift on Windows) and open iTunes. At the prompt to create or choose a library choose the copied iTunes folder.

"Pointing" iTunes to an external drive

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