In itunes, can i save my music on another hard drive other than C?

i have the program installed on my computer, i would like the music to be saved on another hard drive other than C, is there a way to do that within itunes?

You can have multiple libraries, and switch between them using the shift-start-iTunes method. Normally a single library is all that is required. Each library connects to a single designated media folder, however you can import content from other locations if you choose. See Make a split library portable for reasons why this may not be the best approach. If you want to access the "same" library on more than one machine then you need to clone the library files as well as media.
tt2

Similar Messages

  • How can I save a session to another hard drive or flash drive?

    I want to rebuild my hard drive but I want to save the Firefox session (like 70 tabs) before I do so I can reload them after the rebuild. Can I save a session to another hard drive or flash drive?

    The data of the current session is stored in the sessionstore.js file in the profile folder.
    See also:
    *https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile
    *http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox
    You can use this button to go to the Firefox profile folder:
    *Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder (Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder)

  • ITunes can not find my music on external hard drive

    Had to redo my hard drive; had all music on external hard drive; copied iTunes folder onto external hard drive. Now that my desktop hard drive is clean, and new iTunes downloaded, it can not find my music on the external drive which I have always used. Is there some setting I am missing, do I have to copy music onto CPU?

    Hold the SHIFT key while launching iTunes. You will get the option to navigate to the iTunes folder on your external drive. In the iTunes folder point it to the iTunes Library.itl file.

  • I can not save any data to external hard drive from my mac pro. Is there anyone can help me in this regard?( note, when i first plug my ext. drive to mac i chose option to backup later)

    I can not save any data to external hard drive from my mac pro. Is there anyone can help me in this regard?( note, when i first plug my ext. drive to mac i chose option to backup later)

    The device may be formatted for Windows, as NTFS. The format is readable, but not natively writable on a Mac. To write to the device, you must either reformat it (erasing all the contents) or install third-party software to enable write access to NTFS.

  • I have backed my iTunes with over 10,000 songs on a hard drive and than i reset my computer to factory settings, when i put it back on my macbook pro only 2030 were able to be downloaded back to the same computer

    i have backed my iTunes with over 10,000 songs on a hard drive and than i reset my computer to factory settings because my email was hacked, when i downloaded the music back to my macbook pro only 2030 were able to be downloaded . how can i download all my music back?
    michel p.

    I usually err on the sideof caution when someone says "downloaded" and take it to mean anything fro actually downloaded, to copies, to imported, to moved (frolder to folder), but even if they were "downloaded"... if the old email was hacked, and subseuqently closed out, that leaves the downloaded files "orphaned" if you will, belonging to the old ID. So, while they may be on the HD, they're inaccessible now.
    One of the biggest reasons I NEVER keep anything in my library with DRM employed in it.  I bought it. I own it. I'm not going to get locked out of it.

  • Can CC apps be downloaded to, and run from, a hard drive other than the OS drive?

    Can CC apps be downloaded to, and run from, a hard drive other than the OS drive?

    Yes. You can define alternate locations in teh application manager. just be aware that some components will always end up on your system root drive no matter what.
    Mylenium

  • Can i use time capsule as another hard drive?

    Can I use time capsule as another hard drive?

    You can, but it was not really designed for that purpose. Access to files will be quite a bit slower than a drive that is directly attached to your computer.
    The Time Capsule's main function is as a back up device using the Time Machine application.
    If you are using it already for Time Machine, it is generally not a good idea to mix Time Machine backups and regular files on the same drive as there will be struggle for space when the drive starts to fill up.

  • How can I install Adobe Reader 11 to a drive other than C:\?

    I downloaded Reader 11, but at no point during the installation process am I prompted for an installation location.  How can I install this to a drive other than the C:\?  I keep my C:\ and data storage drive separate so in the event the OS crashes I won't lose my data.  I have limited storage capacity since I'm on a laptop so I didn't make my C:\ very large, so that I would have more room for my D:\.  Any suggestions?
    Sincerely,
                    LT Gannon

    having data on a different drive is a good idea.  installing programs on a drive different from you os containing drive is generally not a good idea.  but if you have the expertise and are sure of what you're doing:
    mac:  ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobat/mac/11.x/11.0.00/misc/
    win:  http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5515

  • We have a PC with iTunes that needs the hard drive reformatted. Right now, it can't connect to other computers on the network. Can I save my music to a thumb drive, then re-load when the computer is reformatted?

    We have a Windows XP desktop with iTunes for windows. The hard drive needs to be reformatted. Right now, the computer will not connect to other computers on the network. Can I save my iTunes songs to a thumbdrive, then re-load after reformatting?  How do I do it?

    Copy the entire iTunes folder out to the drive. If it is too big to go as one copy stuff over to another computer in batches. It is important to have not only the media but the library file in order to properly restore your library.
    See also this User Tip. Assuming the machine won't connect to the internet you could download the SyncToy installer on another machine and then transfer it with the thumb drive. If it will connect to the net don't forget to deauthorize the machine before reformatting the hard drive.
    tt2

  • Itunes can't find my music on an external drive

    Hi...new user here. I have 75G of tunes on an external usb hard drive and just synced with my new classic. All went well. Have since disconnected/reconnected the HD a few times and now itunes can't "see" the HD. Have made sure the path is correct in itunes and actually re-set the path and set it again. The itunes message it get is "the song can not be played as the original file could not be found, do you want to locate it".
    I can play a playlist from itunes but not the list of all tunes.

    If you try to start iTunes with the external drive disconnected, iTunes will default back to the internal drive.
    DO you know if you have your iTunes folder containing the library files on the internal drive or the external drive.
    If the iTunes folder that you are using is on the internal drive then you need to set the location of the iTunes Music folder with Edit>>Preferences>>Advanced.
    IF you had your iTunes folderon the external drive, hold down the shift key and start iTunes. Keep holding the shift key until you are prompted to choose a library. Navigate to the iTunes folder on the external drive and choose iTunes Library.itl.

  • Can I play my music from external hard drive through itunes?

    If this is possible How would a (NEW TO iMac) user do this? Otherwise if that is not possible, how do you export music files from a seagate external hard drive to itunes.

    Expanding Niel's answer a bit...
    in iTunes, go to iTunes->Preferences->Advanced and insure that "Copy files..." is NOT checked.  Then you can add all your music to your iTunes library by dragging the parent folder into the "library" window at the upper left (if you're using iTunes 11, do View->Show sidebar first).  You can also do "File->Add to library...".

  • Can you save ibooks contents to external hard drive

    Hi, can you save the contents of ibook (or Ibooks) to an external hard drive. Any help would be good. Many thanks

    Not like you can with iTunes, if that is what you mean. But you can simply drag-n-drop the eBook from iBooks to the external HDD.

  • ITunes 7.1.1 deletes music files on hard drive

    After updating iTunes to 7.1.1, I discovered that my playlist for "alternative" music had dissappeared. OK, no problem, the music files must still be in "music/itunes". Searched through this folder, but ALL the "alternative" music files were gone from the hard drive - all the music burned from CDs, even those purchased from iTunes! Used "find" in various ways, no luck. They are truly deleted.
    After hours and hours of reinstalling all the "alternative" music from backups, all was back as before. I shut my Mac down for the night. The next day I opened iTunes and the "alternative" playlist was gone again - and the music I had put back onto my hard drive had been erased again!
    I've tried starting iTunes from an old library - the playlists come back, but the music is not, just shows question marks. I've even done a virus check of the whole HD.
    As any ideas as to why this is happening, and what to do?
    Now I'm worried that other playlists, and their actual music files will be unpredictably wiped.
    Has this happened to anyone else's "Alternative" music files and/or playlists?
    I can't believe my music files have been erased off my hard drive - twice!
    Hard to trust iTunes now.
    G4   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

    Thanks for the reply, it's appreciated.
    I usually turn off the computer each night. After updating to 7.1.1, just the "alternative" playlist and music files were gone from my HD. I re-installed the music files from a backup HD.
    To test things, I quit iTunes and then opened it again and looked in the music file on the HD, a number of times. The replaced music was still there.
    The next morning, I turned on the computer [Of course, I know that an off computer can do nothing ]. When it came time to open iTunes, again the music files were gone. I didn't check to see if the files were there before I opened iTunes, unfortunately.
    I did use Norton, but only AFTER I discovered the files were gone ...
    At the mo' I'm trying to recreate the problem to see if I can further narrow it down. Putting just one song into the Alternatives playlist, shutting down, starting up, etc. See if it's there. Repairing permissions with Disk Utility, etc etc.
    Again, thanks for trying to help!

  • ITunes can't recognize songs on my external hard drive

    Hi,
    I moved my iTunes folder onto another external, and then redirected the iTunes to my new drive. It updated all my songs. Then I found that randomly a lot of the songs (about 20%) did not sync up. They all have a "?" icon next to the songs. Now 20% of 500gb is a lot of songs, so there is no way I can updated each and every one.
    What's strange is that the iTunes library is identical to the old one, so I don't understand what went wrong with the updating...
    Can someone please let me know how I can have all my songs synced again with my library? Did I do something wrong in the process? Do I need to have the same name external hard disc?
    I still have the original songs in the old external drive, so if someone can tell me the right procedure I can copy the songs again to do another re-sync.
    I have the latest iTunes and most updated system on a Macbook pro.
    Thanks!
    Cal

    Whether it can fixed or not depends on how the drive is formatted. If it is FAT32 you may be out of luck, but if it is in a standard Mac format you should be able to fix it. Take a look at this thread:
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5908325
    For FAT32 I have been unable to find any information at all on either the cause or a solution.
    Francine
    Francine
    Schwieder

  • Can I save files to the external hard drive if I am time machinging to that hard drive?  Not while time machine is doing it's thing of course, but any other time.

    I have a 2 TB Toshiba external hard drive that I want to save files to and also time machine to it (is that called making it a time capsule?).  I want to know if this is possible before I reformat the drive to the 'journaled' format to make it usable for time machining.  And if it is possible, how do I do it?  Just save/transfer stuff to the external hard drive like I normally would or do I have to di something different?  I just can't afford to have all 77 GB of my pictures on my internal hard drive anymore.
    Also, I am mainly trying to set up time machine so I can have a backup before I upgrade from Snow Leopard to Mavericks.
    Thank you!

    KP. wrote:
    I have a 2 TB Toshiba external hard drive that I want to save files to and also time machine to it (is that called making it a time capsule?).  I want to know if this is possible before I reformat the drive to the 'journaled' format to make it usable for time machining.  And if it is possible, how do I do it?  Just save/transfer stuff to the external hard drive like I normally would or do I have to di something different?  I just can't afford to have all 77 GB of my pictures on my internal hard drive anymore.
    Also, I am mainly trying to set up time machine so I can have a backup before I upgrade from Snow Leopard to Mavericks.
    Thank you!
    Time capsule is an Apple product, a combination router/HD specific for wireless TimeMachine.
    You can use Ext HD for saving files to etc as well
    Time Machine needs it own partition and needs to be the first partition on the Harddrive.
    Reformatting the drive GUID, extended journeled
    Done through DiskUtility

Maybe you are looking for