Paul, Was your external connected directly or via a network connection?
Later... On 2011-03-12, at 5:52 AM, Paul Hunt wrote: > Hello. I tried this but ITunes opened in safe mode. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim Kilburn > Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 6:06 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: moving iTunes library > > Hi Chris, > > The easiest way to do this is to simply copy the entire iTunes folder from > your Home Directory to the external drive. > > 1. Go to the Finder. > 2. Press cmd-shift-h to open your Home Directory. > 3. Navigate to the Music folder. > 4. Locate the iTunes folder and press cmd-c to Copy it. > 5. Navigate to your external drive and Paste it onto the drive, preferably > at the root level but it's not necessary. > > This could take a while depending on the size of your iTunes folder. > > 6. After it's done, confirm the sizes of each folder for a rough estimate > of whether it did the job or not. > 7. You can now start iTunes while holding down the Option key. > > This will bring up the Choose iTunes Library dialog for you. If it does > not, you'l need to quit iTunes and try again. > > 8. Once the dialog is up, press cmd-shift-c to bring up what's attached to > your computer. > 9. Locate your external drive, and expand it with VO-back slash. > 10. Select the iTunes folder that you just copied over. > 11. Press the Open or Choose button, I'm not sure which it is at that > point. > > That should do it for you. You can check to make sure all is well in > computerland. All your playlists and everything to do with iTunes should be > exactly the same as it was before this action. If everything is OK, then > navigate back to the iTunes folder in your Home Directory, and throw it in > the Trash. Don't forget to empty your Trash after this otherwise it's not > actually going to save you any space. > > One other thing to note with this set up, this iTunes Library can only be > accessed while the external drive is connected to your machine. If you are > using a laptop and you leave the external at home, the items in the iTunes > Library will not be accessible to you at all. You could, in this case, keep > two iTunes Libraries, one with everything and one with a streamlined amount > of things. They will remain independent of each other, that is, if you > delete something in one, it will not delete in the other and similarly if > you add to one, you'll need to add it to the other if you wish it in both. > > Hope this is clear enough. > > Later... > > On 2011-03-10, at 10:57 PM, Chris Snyder wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I have recently realized that my iTunes library is taking up way too much > space on my primary hard drive. I'd like to move all of the content to my > portable hard drive and have iTunes access the files from there. Is there an > easy way to do this without losing all my playlists and such? >> Friendly, >> Chris >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
