External HD full, moving library to new drive?

I have my iTunes library on a 500GB external drive, which is now full. So I need to move it to a new, larger external drive. I've found lots of articles about moving the library from the internal drive to an external, but haven't found anything that talks about moving from one external drive to another. Is the process basically the same, or is there anything I need to be aware of when moving between external drives? I was think the easiest way would be to name the new drive the same as the old one and copy all the files over from my back up drive. Unfortunately, I gave the old drive the descriptive name "Lacie 500GB", but if it makes things much easier, I might be inclined to use the same name on the new drive even though it will be much bigger.
Thanks.

If you want to make another drive (direct or portable) on your PC the main music location for iTunes, move all song files there, as well as any future imported music from CDs, here is one method (see the links below):
You will maintain your playlists, ratings, comments, etc. This will
i only
move your music folders location,
i NOT
your iTunes program files. It is my opinion that programs (i.e. iTunes) work better when installed on your main hard drive. At the very least, it makes it easier to manage all your programs if they are centrally located on one hard drive (the Windows default standard).
See these links for step-by-step info:
Moving your iTunes Library to a New Hard Drive
MacMuse, "Move iTunes music/Library to new drive", 12:34pm Oct 12, 2004 CDT
If you are moving the music to an external hard drive, after the transfer and to work correctly, the ExHD must be running prior to your opening iTunes. If not, iTunes may reset the location of your music to the default.

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IceJim32 a écrit:
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RS
How did you go about this move?
The correct way to do it is
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3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
If you still have the original library it might be worth trying again.
Regards
TD

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1660

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Steven Shmerler wrote:
I Googled what GUID means, (globally unique identifier) and it seems to be used in the Windows world and is a 128-bit number associated with components, applications, files or used in databases even cookies, etc.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUIDPartitionTable
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Moving Pictures to new drive- XP MC/LR 1.1

What if I want to move the photos that have been imported at their location?
IOW, I am on Windows XP MC, I have imported lots of photos (7000+) and have either brought them from their location in
{c:\documents and settings\.....}
...My Documents\My Pictures\2007\0607\Fishing Trip (e.g.)
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I'm sure there must be some way to do this properly.....may be exporting a catalog and colocating it with the pics or....??? Stumped.
Some of this seems to be addressed here,
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/view...3736&sliceId=2
....but it's not entirely clear to me and looks like there is much to lose in doing this....may be keywords, collection info etc.
I understand for all my Nikon NEF files the idea of writing the XMP sidecars, but do I have to reimport all the files again when I move them? Will the XMP files have the keywords, ratings etc? I'm still not sure this even answers my request in that I want to move my whole library and all my images to a new hard drive- not burn them to CD/DVD as suggested in the article.

I am not at my PC with lightroom on at the moment so this may be a bit vague. But here goes.
Create a directory where you want your photos to reside. ( this should be the base directory which will hold all your photos.) I am guessing in your case it would be (new drive\My Photos).
place a single photo into the directory.
import the photo into lightroom.
In the folder view you will now see this directory. You should be able to move your existing directories into this folder inside lightroom. e.g. You should hopefully be able to see the directory 2007, which you can just move.
If you can not see you base directories (2007) there is a trick which allows you to see them in the folder view but I have not got the details on me at the moment. Someone else may point you at the trick. Or just place an image in that directory and import it.
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Moving backups to new drive -- without using disk utility restore

Hello,
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jimumbra wrote:
Hello,
I have done some research on this already but I don't believe I've found the solution. I just bought a new media / backup hard drive, and I've moved my itunes library (over 100 GBs) to this drive. Now I have researched how to move the time machine backups to this drive, and know you can't just copy the files.
The instructions I've received tell me to use the disk utility to restore the old time machine backup drive to the new drive, however if I do that won't I lose the iTunes stuff currently on that drive?
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