Moving iTunes Library

I GOT IT!

I had mixed up the Advance Menu with the Advance Menu!

There is an ADVANCE tab in the pref and there is an ADVANCE menu in the toolbar!!

So, after telling iTunes where I want the new library to be via the ADVANCE tab in the prefs, I ask for a consolidation in the ADVANCE menu.

After all the long long copy is finished, iTunes kept ALL my date and list and sort order and EVERYTHING!

So simple...once you made it!

Thank you all, Supporters!

Hi folks,
After waitttting,so so long....is this going to cover my conserns about combining
libs from diferrent computers? combining itunes liberies? if other things have to be done, Please let me know! its all music that I payed for, so please don't say copy right!!
Thanx,
DRS
orig.post...
iTunes » iTunes for Mac » Using iTunes for Mac, Jan 11, 2007 6:45 AM, Replies: 0
hi folks,
I have 3 different libraries i would like to combine for/to a my backup hard drive, is there a easy way to do it?
drs

OK, as per my previous post, why doesn't apple see it fit to make changing or moving the i-times library and the song folder to a new location easy? there should be one button that says move my itunes to this location. bam done. no if's, and's or but's! Can someone from Apple please answer me why this isn't so? My head is spinning just from reading this trail of posts alone! Can you imagine how many people out there are confused about this! Answer: almost everyone! Aplle, do us all a favor, and making moving i-tunes easy!

OK, as per my previous post, why doesn't apple see it fit to make changing or moving the i-times library and the song folder to a new location easy? there should be one button that says move my itunes to this location. bam done. no if's, and's or but's! Can someone from Apple please answer me why this isn't so? My head is spinning just from reading this trail of posts alone! Can you imagine how many people out there are confused about this! Answer: almost everyone! Apple, do us all a favor, and making moving i-tunes easy!

I have become quite confused on this issue, as I wanted to make a back up and moved my iTunes file to external drive.
Now, even when I hold the <opt> key and choose the library on my internal, it will not work unless my external is mounted.

Under the preferences it points to the library I want to use, and all the original songs are contained in it. Yet it will not play.

Help please.

This did NOT work. Neither did Apple's user article about how to move one's music to another drive. I still get the "!."

Using the Consolidate Library command didn't work for me. I had originally followed Apple's instructions for moving music to a new hard drive and wound up with "!" in front of most of my songs. Neither holding down the Option key at iTunes start nor using the Consolidate Library command alleviate this problem (I set the new music location in the Advanced Preferences tab).

The only thing that works is to select each, individual song, hit Command-I, and show iTunes where the song is located on the new drive. I can't do this for 2,500 songs!

Can anyone help me?

Chris
I downloaded and tried SynchoTunes and it doesn't work for me.
Poor interface...confusing as can be. I won't go into the details of the list of problems it has.But after selecting all the songs I wanted (which are jumbled up with movies, tv shows, podcasts by title, by artist, maybe some of both) I told it to Copy missing files and it want for a while, then ended. It thought it was done but when I looked, nothing had moved at all. It had created some new SynchoTunes folder on my destination mac and that is about it. I have no idea what it did but it didn't do what I expected. I tried comparing again and it just reset my checkboxes (all the ones I spent time unchecking as part of my selection process.) So I would NOT recommend wasting anyone's time on that utility until the author can make it do what it is supposed to do.

I have the same issue. Did you ever get a solution?

That link no longer exists.

Yep, same boat. I actually used my external hard drive for my music, then got a new iMac with 500 GB, so I tried to move everything over. Didn't work, so I kept using the external hard drive. Then when it got full, I tried to re-partition it. Now it doesn't even recognize stuff from that hard drive, and doesn't recognize where anything is on the iMac. Just a bunch of !'s. Plus, I've got about 97 GB of stuff, over 13,000 songs, and there is no way I'm gonna go through each one individually. I've still got my songs, but I'm afraid to update anything. Adding a new library solved the ! issue, but I lost all my playlists, which doesn't help me with my shuffle, 80 GB iPod, iPhone, etc...

Oh yeah, and I did everything you said. I reopened with the option button pressed. I consolidated. I pointed iTunes towards the new folder. Etc. Etc.