Issue of missing songs after transfer from MAC to a PC
Hello, my partner has an old Mac which is 15 years old and has an extensive iTunes library on it. We have recently bought a new HP All in One PC with Windows 10 and I performed the following tasks to transfer the music files across:
- In iTunes I consolidated the files and checked their location was OK under username/music/iTunes etc.
- I added a partition to my Seagate drive to allow for the files to be copied in a 'FAT' format and read by the PC
- I copied the whole iTunes folder across onto the external drive and then copied the iTunes folder into the music folder under my partner's user profile on the new PC
- When I opened iTunes I held down the 'Shift' key and then pointed iTunes to the iTunes folder in Music
- ITunes then opened and appears to show all of my partners 5500 songs, however when I try and play a song I get a 'Cannot locate file, try and locate' message (I also notice that all the songs have an 'i' in the left hand menu)
- So I then navigate through the iTunes folders and there is a folder that seems to have Artist Names, then the relevant album of the song I am try to find, and then the song itself; once I locate the song and click on it, Voila the song is played in iTunes!
I would be really grateful if someone could help me to find away of somehow associating all of the songs brought across to their relevant Artist/Album/Song etc. as surely I don't have to manually associate each song showing in the iTunes music library screen to the relevant file within iTunes file structure?
Many thanks in advance!
Steve
iMac