Thank you from me too Ronni, I will keep these instructions for when I (hopefully) soon get my new iMac.
On 12/10/2012, at 8:23 PM, Ronni Brown wrote: > Hi Stuart, > > As long as all your Music and Media is in the default location - > Home/Music/iTunes > > Moving your Content to a New Computer: > > If you’re simply looking to move your iTunes library to an entirely new > computer, the process is actually quite a bit simpler than relocating the > content, provided certain conditions are met: > > • You are moving your iTunes library between two computers using the > same operating system and iTunes version; and > • You plan to store the iTunes library database and content in the same > relative locations on the new computer > > If this is the case, then transferring your iTunes library to a new computer > is quite simple: > Just copy the entire "iTunes Folder" (which contains all sub-folders) from > your “Music” folder on your old computer to the corresponding folder on the > new computer. > > Note: If you have previously run iTunes on the new computer at all, even if > you haven’t done anything with it, chances are that there will already be an > “iTunes” folder present. Unless you’ve already started using iTunes on the > new computer and adding content to it, you can safely overwrite this folder > as it simply represents the empty database that iTunes initially creates. > > Note: that your iTunes preferences are machine-specific, and you will need to > go through and re-configure these the first time you run iTunes after copying > your library over to the new computer. > > If you have any content purchased from the iTunes Store, you will need to > Re-Authorize the new computer for your iTunes Store account. > Computer authorization is machine-specific. > You should also make sure you DE-authorize your old computer if you no longer > plan to use it with iTunes. > > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" > 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD > > OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > > On 12/10/2012, at 6:53 PM, Stuart Breden <bred...@highway1.biz> wrote: > >> How do I copy my iMac iTunes library to my MacBook Pro? >> >> Stuart Breden >> PO Box 132 >> Kalamunda WA 6926 >> Ph: (08) 9257 1577 >> Mbl: 0417 053 266 >> >> Please consider the environment before printing this email >> > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121012/1a7480a9/attachment.htm > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> Regards, Stephen Chape -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121013/cdddff06/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
