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iTunes cannot locate music on external hard drive

Hi, I recently decided to move my iTunes music to a secondary 1tb hard drive on my computer


I copied the iTunes folder contents to a new folder on my 1tb hard drive called "iTunes tb"


inside this folder contains: Album artwork, iTunes library extras.itdb, iTunes library genius.itdb, iTunes library.il, iTunes library.xml, iTunes music folder and previous iTunes libraries.


After copying my iTunes folder i changed the iTunes media location to /Volumes/1 TB Drive/iTunes TB/iTunes Music


I have pressed option key and rebuilt my library but for some reason -


I could not play any music I get this message "could not be used because the original file could not be found."


Thanks, any help would be appreciated.

Posted on Sep 1, 2015 12:22 PM

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Posted on Sep 1, 2015 2:58 PM

Hold down the option key and start iTunes, when prompted select the iTunes Library.itl file in the new location.

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iTunes cannot locate music on external hard drive

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