How do I get my iTunes music to play once I have moved it to my Seagate external hard drive
I had all of my iTunes stuff on my desktops internal hard drive and it was really slowing it down. So this morning I organized my media folder like apple support said too and then I changed the media folder location to my Seagate external hard drive. Now when I bring up my iTunes library it says it "cannot find the original and asks if I would like to locate it. I have been through this before. When I locate the file from my external hard drive to my computer it just puts the file right back into my computer taking up my internal hard drive space. What do I need to do to play my itunes library from my Seagate external hard drive? I would also like to be able to sync my Ipod from my external hard drive. Please Help!!! This thing is driving me Crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is there any way I can retry to consolidate them in my external hard drive?
sure.
preferences > advanced. point iTunes media folder location to the external. on the same tab, ensure that the copy to ... and keep ... organized options are checkmarked. ok out of preferences.
now consolidate your files via library > organize library.
all media files will be copied to the external (except those that are already on it - if any).
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Make a note of which drive-letter the external drive has been allocated. (Look in Windows Exploer)
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Close and shut down the computer.
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Before you start iTunes - check the external drive in Windows Explorer. Is it ready, does it have the same drive-letter that it had last time? Can you go into the drive and see the files on it?
Once you can, start iTunes. (If the drive lettter has changed, you need to work out why before going any further.)
If iTunes fails to find your external drive, you need to check where iTunes is looking for your Library.
Select the same song you checked before (presumably iTunes can no longer find it). Follow the procedure for locating it. You should be able to see where iTunes thinks the file is. It's the drive that counts. Which drive letter is iTunes looking at? Is it the same one that it was previously (which should also be the same one that the drive has now).
What happens, which step do you have problems with?
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ldarst55 wrote:
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