Hi Alex,
If ever you forget to connect your drive, iTunes will create a new, blank
iTunes library located in ~/Library/Music. This is a bit of a pain to resolve,
but you can simply exit iTunes, re-connect your drive, and re-launch it with
the OPTION KEY held down. At that point you’ll have the
Thanks again for all your help. Things seem to be working just fine now, and I
was able to erase the applications. I just wonder what will happen when I try
to use iTunes but forget to plug in my drive. Until I can get tons if
iCloud or Dropbox storage, this is a great way to do things, and now
Sounds correct to me.
The files in the Mobile Applications folder are simply iOS apps that you can
sync to an iDevice rather than having to re-download from the App Store all the
time. iTunes treats apps like any other kind of media. So, for example, you
could do the following:
1. Open iTunes a
Thanks. So, to be sure I have the process right:
1. Move the entire library to somewhere iTunes can write to (by copying it out
of the Time Machine location).
2. Open iTunes with the Option key held down, and browse to my newly copied
library folder.
3. Locate the apps folder from within iTunes
If the applications folder is empty, it can be safely removed. If it is not
empty, I would recommend removing all the apps from within the iTunes UI first,
otherwise all those apps will still show up in your library but iTunes will not
be able to locate them.
As for synchronization and backups,
Hi all,
I am about to copy over my old iTunes library, but I have one more question.
I've already synced my iPhone with iTunes a few times. Will this mess up any
syncing moving forward, or restoring encrypted backups, or anything? Similarly,
since I never use them, can I replace or get rid of th
