Re: moving iTunes library

[Sarah k Alawami]

go to advanced and uncheck the box labeled called  copy. My itl file is on 1 
drive, the folder is on my external along wight music.
On May 24, 2013, at 3:40 PM, "Rudolph, Douglas"  
wrote:

> How did you tell it to do this
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 2013-05-24, at 4:11 PM, "Sarah k Alawami"  wrote:
> 
>> Did you have it copy the files every time you added the files to the 
>> computer? I normally don't which is how I managed to move 700 gigs of music 
>> to the new location with out moving the music.
>> 
>> take care.
>> On May 24, 2013, at 2:35 PM, "Rudolph, Douglas"  
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> hey guys,i went on the apple site and got step by step instruction how 
>>> to move my iTunes library so that i can free up space on my hard drive. it 
>>> seems as if though that the move worked, but none of the files left the 
>>> computer.   they are all now on both my hard drive, and my external drive.  
>>>   help me…I've only got 128 gb SSD and i want more then 68gb open 
>>> on it. help!
>>> thanks
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Re: moving iTunes library

[Rudolph, Douglas]

How did you tell it to do this

Sent from my iPhone

On 2013-05-24, at 4:11 PM, "Sarah k Alawami"  wrote:

> Did you have it copy the files every time you added the files to the 
> computer? I normally don't which is how I managed to move 700 gigs of music 
> to the new location with out moving the music.
> 
> take care.
> On May 24, 2013, at 2:35 PM, "Rudolph, Douglas"  
> wrote:
> 
>> hey guys,i went on the apple site and got step by step instruction how 
>> to move my iTunes library so that i can free up space on my hard drive. it 
>> seems as if though that the move worked, but none of the files left the 
>> computer.   they are all now on both my hard drive, and my external drive.   
>>  help me…I've only got 128 gb SSD and i want more then 68gb open on 
>> it. help!
>> thanks
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Re: moving iTunes library

[Sarah k Alawami]

Did you have it copy the files every time you added the files to the computer? 
I normally don't which is how I managed to move 700 gigs of music to the new 
location with out moving the music.

take care.
On May 24, 2013, at 2:35 PM, "Rudolph, Douglas"  
wrote:

> hey guys,i went on the apple site and got step by step instruction how to 
> move my iTunes library so that i can free up space on my hard drive. it seems 
> as if though that the move worked, but none of the files left the computer.   
> they are all now on both my hard drive, and my external drive.help 
> me…I've only got 128 gb SSD and i want more then 68gb open on it. 
> help!
> thanks
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moving iTunes library

[Rudolph, Douglas]

hey guys,i went on the apple site and got step by step instruction how to 
move my iTunes library so that i can free up space on my hard drive. it seems 
as if though that the move worked, but none of the files left the computer.   
they are all now on both my hard drive, and my external drive.help me…  
  I've only got 128 gb SSD and i want more then 68gb open on it. help!
thanks
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Moving iTunes library to an external drive [was Re: Itunes question]

[Esther]

Hi Matthew,

You asked about moving your iTunes library to an external drive: 
> 
> Have an itunes question.  I just moved my lybrary over to an external drive.  
> I changed whare the irt is located, but How do I know if what I am looking at 
> is on the external drive or not?  If the contence was moved over to the drive 
> why is everything still on the macontash hd?  Thanks.
> 
> Matthew

I wrote a reply to Jane's question about this last week, and was going to point 
you to this, but a check of the archives showed that this post never made it to 
the list, although there's a copy in my Inbox dated January 28 (go figure).  So 
I'll append this note along  with apologies to Jane for the late reply.

The brief answer to your question, Matthew, is that in order to move your 
iTunes library to an external drive, you have to update the information in the 
iTunes database to point to the new location.  You do this by first changing 
the location for your iTunes Media Folder in the Advanced pane of your iTunes 
Preferences.  This only specifies where future additions to your iTunes library 
will be written.  To actually move your library to the external drive, you then 
use the "Organize Library…" menu option under iTunes.  This is outlined in more 
detail in an iLounge article called " Transferring your iTunes Library 
(November 30, 2011)":
<http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/mobile/articles/moving-your-itunes-library-to-a-new-hard-drive/>
In case that long link breaks, here's a shortened link to the same page:
<http://bit.ly/yhmVQk>

Please read that article, because it explains a lot of the basic concepts about 
how iTunes organizes your library. And to answer your question about how you 
can tell where any track in your iTunes library is located, if you select a 
track in the songs table and use the "Get Info" (Command-I) shortcut, the 
summary tab will show you the path to the file.

There are also more details in my reply to Jane, pasted in and appended below 
my signature.

HTH. Cheers,

Esther

Subject:Moving iTunes library to an external drive [was Re: 
Working with external Drive]
Date:   January 28, 2012 
To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility 

Hi Jane,

I've retitled your subject since the main question is about moving your iTunes 
library to an external drive and using it there.  The best descriptions I've 
read of this process are the articles on the iLounge site. There's a recent 
(end of November 2011) iLounge article titled, "Transferring your iTunes 
Library" by Jesse Hollington that explains the process. I prefer to use their 
mobile site, especially when I access these articles from an iPhone or iPad, so 
that's the format I'm giving you in the link:
• Transferring your iTunes Library (November 30, 2011)
<http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/mobile/articles/moving-your-itunes-library-to-a-new-hard-drive/>
In case that long link breaks, here's a shortened link to the same page:
<http://bit.ly/yhmVQk>
Otherwise, you can do a Google search on "ilounge transferring iTunes library", 
and use Safari Reader (via the  Command-Shift-R shortcut on your Mac) to avoid 
the ads, additional graphics, etc. on their regular site.

To briefly summarize, iTunes maintains the information on where your music, 
audiobooks, movies, etc. are located in a database file that is relatively 
small, that you will continue to keep on your main computer, while you move the 
contents files and folders from your iTunes Media folder to your external 
drive. However, the correct way to do this is by using iTunes with the 
"Organize Library…" option found as a submenu under the File menu's "Library" 
menu option.  The iLounge articles use embedded graphics to display the option 
menus, so I'll describe the dialog menu that appears for the "Organize 
Library…" option.  It consists of two check box options, one for "Consolidate 
files" that puts copies of all media files used by iTunes in the iTunes Media 
Folder  while leaving the original files in their current location.  The second 
check box option is for "Reorganize files" in the folder "iTunes music"  that 
creates files and folders within the iTunes Media Folder location specified in 
the Advanced menu of your iTunes preferences, and places files that you 
imported into iTunes into the correct folders in this location, while leaving 
files that were not imported in their current locations.

The article does a good job of describing the various options you have for 
moving your iTunes library files if you're upgrading your computer or, as in 
your case, simply moving the library to an external hard drive.  It also 
describes the common wrong ways to try moving your iTunes files and the 
misconceptions behind these ways.

In