HT4527 I transferred my items media to an external drive, but found that there was a file left on my PC that was full of album artwork. Is there a different function required to move artwork?
I transferred my itunes media folder to an external drive so I could save space on my PC. Some time after I did this, I found a folder still itunes still on my PC.
Inside it had a folder called Album Artwork that was filled with files I could not open, but I assume belong to the songs I had moved. There are also other files in this PC folder that have moblie apps, previous itunes libraries, as well as a few items listed as itunes database files and a bunch of .tmp files.
Did I do something wrong in moving my songs?
I cannot understand why all of this data still exists on my PC when I had moved the media folder to another hard drive.
When I try to get artwork for new songs, they go still to this PC folder. Can anyone offer me any guidance?
Thanks!
I think I see what you are getting at....If I moved the entire itunes folder and then redirected itunes to the new location of the media file, everything would be in the new location. Right? I didn't realize that artwork was stored seperately from songs...am I hearing you correctly?
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I wish to move my itunes media to an external drive.
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Hello all,
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