Transfer from one hard drive to another

See Make a split library portable for general background. If the library was already split and you've moved the content from one drive to another you can fix things by reassigning drive letters. Otherwise if you copy over the library files and put the media folder back inside it then it should be as if you moved a portable library as a unit and everything should fall back into place.

tt2

turingtest2 wrote:

Otherwise if you copy over the library files and put the media folder back inside it then it should be as if you moved a portable library as a unit and everything should fall back into place.

Pretty much this, but I thought some elaboration might help. Inside my music folder I have a folder called iTunes. Inside of that I have a folder for album artwork, a folder for the music itself, and four individual files, all of which I'm pretty sure was automatically created by iTunes when I first downloaded it. One is called "iTunes Library" and the type is listed as 'iTunes Database File', and another is called "iTunes Music Library", with the type listed as 'XML Document'. Copying the entire iTunes folder (including the separate files) gave me my library back with basically no effort on my part when I moved computers (I had to go locate the songs again, probably because I manually do pretty much everything, but after finding one it instantly found the rest).

The standard shape is an iTunes folder containing the library files, Album Artwork, and an iTunes Media folder containing all media. If your library is in this layout there isn't any need to fix broken links after moving the library.

tt2