Hi Jessie, I've retitled the subject thread, because this is really about moving libraries, and not about podcasts.
On Wed Jan 16, 2008, at 04:59AM, jesus hernandez wrote: >hello guys just got me a new external 500 gb hard drive and have >transfered all my music and podcasts to it. how do i tell itunes that >the pod casts are there so when i go to play them it doesn't say >invalid location and have to tell itunes where they are? This would normally be handled with the "Consolidate Library" option under the Advanced menu on the iTunes menu bar where you first change your iTunes Music folder location under your preferences (under the Advanced menu for iTunes preferences, and under the General tab) to a location on your external hard drive, and then use "Consolidate Library" under the Advanced menu of the iTunes menu bar to copy the files over to the new hard drive location. If you've already moved your files to the new drive outside of iTunes then I'm not sure what the easiest solution would be. You could add all these files to your iTunes library again by simply using the command+O "Add to Library" option under iTunes and pointing to the new folder on your external hard drive, but that wouldn't get your podcasts showing up correctly under the podcasts library because there's no easy way to distinguish them from regular music files by their file names. It would also mean that you'd still have to remove the duplicate wrong entries. You could edit your iTunes Music Library.xml file to use a "find and replace" on all entries that begin with a path on your original hard drive with the path on your new hard drive. For example, under each location keyword in your iTunes Music Library.xml file you'd have to change the beginning file://localhost/Users/<username>/Music/iTunes/iTunes%20Music/ to the corresponding folder on your external hard drive that you now use to store Music. (Make sure to make a copy of the original iTunes Music Library.xml file in another location before you try editing!) If you have room on your original Mac it might be easiest to move your music files back there (or at least, any that you haven't identified to iTunes in their new location) and just go through the "Consolidate Library" process in iTunes. There was some discussion about this in an old thread on the mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg23153.html Hope this helps. Cheers, Esther
