Help, recently my hard drive failed so I put in the original that came with my mac back in. ( I have a lot of music and the old HD was too small). It was replaced with a Samsung HM640JJ Spinpoint drive . Now i have to search for my music b4 i can play it
I tried to restore from time machine, but there was not enough space to load all my music and aplications. I tried to convert it to mp3 now I have bitrates of 128,160,and 1141kbs. If I try to play a song in the Itunes I get the song could not be used because the original could not be found, would you like to search for it. Will I have to do this for the remaining 7400songs?
Thanks in advance
Asherr130 wrote:
so basically, I have all this music on my computer already, and I've been trying to go through it to cut it down to only the things I want.... can I drag those files directly from itunes to a hard drive
yes. i would ALWAYS let iTunes do the moving lest it loses track of where the files are stored.
follow the instructions in this link to move your iTunes library to an external HD. the article is for Mac. if your music is still on the windows machine, check this read for pointers: http://lifehacker.com/242468/geek-to-live--how-to-move-an-itunes-library-from-a- pc-to-mac-and-back.
also, when I've done that, and have everything on the external hard drive, I can go clean up all the music files still left on my computer.... then I press option and drag everything back to itunes? what will that do for me?
as i mentioned, this will make iTunes reference the path to the original location (your external HD) but will not copy the files physically.
and how will I be able to work with my music and update it after that?
you mount the external HD before launching iTunes. now you can do whatever as if the files where on your startup disk.
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