Can't change music file location

Hi All,
When I go to preferences>advanced>general and browse to change the locations of my Itunes file (on another hard disk partition)I can not get it to recognize. I need to do this since the first partition is nearly full.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Chris

Sounds like you did something wrong.
Everything worked well until yesterday when some bug appeared which necessitated me reinstalling the system software
All you need to do it start iTunes and hold the Option key and select the library on the 2nd partition.
When you change the iTunes music folder location in the prefs, iTunes will use that folder to store the music but it will not add what is in that folder. You need to do File -> Add to library.
Here's what I did:I simply highlighted all the music folders and dragged them on to the iTunes window. It copied everything, except my ratings, and left the files on the other partition.
Now you have an iTunes library file on each partition. and a new iTunes folder on your 1st partition.
Not a problem but as you see, you did lose your ratings (and date added and a few other fields).
All the old info is still in the library file on the other partition.
As above, start iTunes and hold the Option key and select the library on the 2nd partition.

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