Backing up data to external drive....

I have to take my computer back after downloading 8 million or so songs and I am not looking forward to reloading them all. I have an external drive. Which part of the itunes folder do I need to save in order to be able to use the songs later. I looked at all the stuff on their website and it is for loading the music to cd or dvd's. I would happily do if 1) I did not have about 2.5 gigs of music and 2) I could use my dvd burner (hence the return to the store). Please help. Also my husband and I both have Ipods but I think I am the only authorized user on there. If he is only adding music from my library would he have authorized this computer?

Drag the entire iTunes folder to the external.
2.5 GB of music is a pretty small library.

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Greetings,
I've never seen this issue, and I handle many iPads, of all versions. WiFi issues are generally local to the WiFi router - they are not all of the same quality, range, immunity to interference, etc. You have distance, building construction, and the biggie - interference.
At home, I use Apple routers, and have no issues with any of my WiFi enabled devices, computers, mobile devices, etc - even the lowly PeeCees. I have locations where I have Juniper Networks, as well as Aruba, and a few Netgears - all of them work as they should.
The cheaper routers, Linksys, D-Link, Seimens home units, and many other no name devices have caused issues of various kinds, and even connectivity.
I have no idea what Starbucks uses, but I always have a good connection, and I go there nearly every morning and get some work done, as well as play.
You could try changing channels, 2.4 to 5 Gigs, changing locations of the router. I have had to do all of these at one time or another over the many years that I have been a Network Engineer.
Good Luck - Cheers,
M.

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Sure hope there is a solution to this for I must get these image backed up on an external drive.
Thanking you in advance.
Jack

Jack:
The best way to fix your issue is to put the files into an album and name that album the way you would want the basic file name to be. Then export those photos from the album using the File->Export->File Export menu route and select the option to "Use album name". The exported files will be titled "album name-01.jpg", "album name-02.jpg", etc. This will maintain their order. if you export more than 99 at a time, the files will not be ordered properly in the list view as they don't have two zeros before numbers 1-9 and one zero before numbers 10-99.
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Yes. You will need to configure Time Machine preferences on each computer to backup to the same drive. Note that you cannot connect the backup drive to both machines at the same time.

How do I move a back up to another external drive and how does the Mac Book then find the new back up?

how do I move a back up to another external drive and how does the Mac Book then find the new back up?
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Did you read the link to the Pondidni website? You will have to select the Time Machine HDD for the new MBP and the old one in System Preferences>Time Machine:
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I do the same thing as you do...
My music is on an external drive as to not use up gigabytes of storage that need not be used for media.
There are a couple basic principles to iTunes that I believe you should know.
1. iTunes is not a media storage program. It does not store your media "in iTunes". It simply is an organization tool for your media already on a hard disk.
2. As iTunes is not a storage mechanism, it has no way to "know" whether or not the media that is listed is actually there. This is where the "design" of iTunes comes into play.
I like to think of iTunes as a bread-crumb trail. The "music" in iTunes, isn't actually there. The bread crumb is the location on the external hard drive.
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I go into edit > preferences > advanced and set my library to the correct location. Make sure you check the box "Copy to iTunes Folder when importing" (or whatever it says).
You can't fix the issue of iTunes not seeing the media if your drive is unplugged unless you physically move the content to your OS HDD...Or any other HDD you use.

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Didn't really know where to put it.
I most likely deleted an important folder on my external drive a while ago (which was the only copy because I didn't have enough space on other drives, doesn't matter), I don't remember when, because I didn't know I did.
So I'm looking to recover everything that's possible. I already made myself to have no expectations, but maybe it is possible to retrieve the files. The 2TB drive (LaCie d2 Quadra USB 3.0) is only filled up for 750GB approximately and I didn't do much writing ever since I got it.
I'm looking for a folder that contains 100-150GB of data, .DNG raw files and .MP4 movie clips.
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http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php (click Demo)
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I recently installed a external usb 2.0 hard drive to my macbook pro.
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But each time I put in my DVD backup it wants to restore to the laptop (even with new media location set). Any work around? Or
WIll I have to restore from DVD to laptop, and do a library consolidating process to get the media to the external drive.

Hello Jayrajjpatel,
It sounds like you have a Time Machine backup on an external drive that you would like to use to restore your computer. The following article will help you get that done, named:
OS X Mavericks: Recover your entire system
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14185
If you’re restoring your system because of a problem with your startup disk, repair or replace the disk before following these instructions.
Make sure your Time Machine backup disk is connected and turned on. If your disk is on a network, make sure your Mac is on the same network.
Choose Apple menu > Restart. Once your Mac restarts (and the gray screen appears), hold down the Command (⌘) and R keys.
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Time Capsule: Choose your network from the AirPort menu on the right side of the menu bar, and then select your Time Capsule and click “Connect to Remote Disk.”
Network backup disk: Select it, then click “Connect to Remote Disk.”
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After you restore your system, Time Machine may perform a full backup at the next scheduled backup time. This is normal. Time Machine resumes incremental backups after the full backup is completed.
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All the very best,
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My LaCie external Time Machine drive crashed on me somehow and I had to repartition it. I have a second back up (different external drive) through CCC so Im not worried about data loss, but for the life of me, I cant remember how I had time machine configured to back up. I have a second separate external drive that contains my iphoto, imovie and itunes libraries on it. I think I had time machine set up to back that drive up along with my mac separtely somehow, but after thinking about it, isnt that a little redundant. Am I not backing up my iphoto/imovie/itunes external drive through my mac back up? Seems like before I could go into time machine and open that drive from there. If so, is there any reason to back up the iphoto drive separately along with my mac back on time machine, or is that even possible? Would it be easier to restore the iphoto hard drive if it were backup up separately, not as a part of my mac backup? I have had my CCC back up (a second external back up drive) set up to back up the mac and the pic/video/itunes drive separately.

If you open TimeMachine's preferences and click on the Options button you'll see that it works with a simple exclusion rule. It assumes it should back up everything on every drive connected to it except for those files, folders, and drives you exclude.
Like you, I have a separate external drive for media. After playing around with TimeMachine way back when I realized that each time I edited the meta data for music the song or movie got backed up again. I also discovered that at that time TM didn't play nice with iPhoto's library. Given these issues I decided to exclude my media hard drive from TimeMachine and back it up using ChronoSync (on an automatic schedule) once a week.
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BTW - being a belt and suspenders kind of tech, I have multiple backup drives so one TM drive and one media drive is always off site. A backup is no good if the thief steals it.

Moving already backed-up data to different drive

Hi all -
I have about 700gb of videos that I want to move off my iMac's internal hard drive onto an external drive. The videos have already been backed up with Time Machine.
After I move the videos to the external drive, I want to continue backups on that data, but don't want to create a duplicate backup of the data that's already there. What's the best way to do this? I'd prefer not deleting the backups so I can keep the history, but not sure I can avoid that.
The only thing I can think of is to move the videos to the external drive, then create a link from the original location to the new location on the external drive so the original directory structure is intact. Will Time Machine see that as being in a new location and still do a full backup when it first sees it?
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Thanks, klaus1! I looked briefly at the SyncTwoFolders link you posted, and it definitely sounds like something I could use.
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- would SyncTwoFolders be needed only for the initial duplication, or would I need to keep using it? If the former, what's the difference between doing this and doing a straight copy?
- would I set my internal drive "videos" folder as the source, and the external drive "videos" folder as the target? And would that then trigger SyncTwoFolders to start copying the files to the external drive?
- after the above, I should now have two identical "videos" folders, right? I don't think I need to do the aliasing as these videos are my raw AVCHD videos that aren't referenced anywhere, and I can't play or do anything with them except to be imported into iMovie. So when I delete the originals, the target copy (on the external drive) becomes my only copy.
- when I then start Time Machine backups on the external drive, does it know not to back those videos up? And when I add new videos, those will backed up by Time Machine as usual?
Thanks very much for your help!

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