Moving library to a different hard drive

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Moving library to a different hard drive

I have an Ibook G4 with 60Gb of memory that is quickly filling up with music. I'd like to move the music onto the external drive that I use for backup, thereby freeing space on the laptop.

Any thoughts on the proper way to do this?

Thanks.

Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Posted on Apr 28, 2007 5:37 AM

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Chris CA

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Apr 28, 2007 5:51 AM in response to 7426k

To move your iTunes music...

1 Quit iTunes.
2 Move the entire iTunes folder including music to the external drive.
3 Restart iTunes holding the Shift key in Windows, Option key in Mac.
4 iTunes will ask to Create new library or Choose existing library. Select Choose existing library and select the library in the folder you just moved.
5 Move the old iTunes folder to the trash but do not empty it.
6 Restart iTunes normally and verify the songs work. If they do, empty the trash.

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May 3, 2007 5:59 AM in response to Chris CA

Thank you very much, Chris.

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