If you are adding from an external drive, you want to be careful. There is a setting in preferences whether to copy files to the default iTunes location or not. If you don't have it copy them over, and your external drive isn't connected, then you will get errors saying something like invalid location. ,"HTH, Richard
"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing." - Aristotle > On Apr 8, 2014, at 3:14 PM, "Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D." > <kramlinger.ke...@mayo.edu> wrote: > > Is this how one would add mp3 files from an external hard drive, too? > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Richard Turner > Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 5:13 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Bringing music over to a new computer > > I think you said only part of it is showing up in iTunes? > How about opening the file menu, then select "add folder" and navigate to the > iTunes Media folder and add the whole thing. > Then wait a long time if you have a large library. > I hope it is smaart enough to not create duplicates. > Or, you could go into preferences and make sure the correct location is > selected, but it sounds like it probably is. > HTH, > Richard > > > "There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be > nothing." - Aristotle > > On Apr 8, 2014, at 8:01 AM, Kimber Gardner <kimbersinbox1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I did that and when I open windows explorer everything is there under > iTunes media. But when I open iTunes, I see only have the songs that I > know are present in the iTunes media folder. > > > On 4/8/14, Robert Doc Wright <yeshua.talmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > you need to copy the itunes folder from your old computer and paste it in > your my music folder on your new computer after installing itunes. You do > not do this until itunes is already installed on the new computer. > **** > If we can't look at ourselves, and ask, why? then where does the learning > start? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kimber Gardner" <kimbersinbox1...@gmail.com> > To: "viphone" <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Cc: "blindtunesbeta" <blindtunesb...@freelists.org> > Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 6:32 AM > Subject: Bringing music over to a new computer > > > Hi All, > > Please forgive the cross-post. > > I want to move my iTunes library to a new laptop running the latest > iTunes and windows 7. > > Using my online backup system, I now have all my music in the music > folder on the new computer, but only half the music is visible when I > open iTunes. I have a feeling I missed a step, but don't know what. 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