Having problems connecting my iTunes to external drive
I am migrating from a PC to iMac. My itunes on my PC connects to an external drive which was entered into the "itunes media folder location" under Advannced.
I am trying to connect to this drive on my Mac and I am getting the message " There was a proble connecting to the server "Music" The version of the server you ar trying to connect to is not supported. Please contact your system administrator to resolve the problem"
I have installed itunes via Parallel and connected no problem to the 'music' drive. Sort of seem to defeat the point of having two versions of itunes running. Is there something i need to do got it working on the Mac op system?
thanks
I don't know why you are installing iTunes through Parallels since Mac has its own version of iTunes.
The get iTunes for Mac to use iTunes on the external, hold down the option key while starting iTunes and guide it to the library file in the iTunes folder on the external drive. If it says it cannot find a library file then that means you don't have a complete set of files on the external to get it to be used in this way and will need to reconfigure your library.
Another issue you may encounter is drive format incompatibility. If you formatted this drive with a Windows computer it will likely be NTFS formatted. You will either need to wipe the drive and reformat to FAT32 for use with both Macs and PCs, or the Mac format. Depending upon which way you want to go you will need third party software.
I've omitted a lot of details, but we can provide those once we know exactly how you want to operate.
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