I got too brave and I transfered music and I-Tunes to portable drive

I thought it would be better to have all my itunes stuff on a portable harddrive (H) instead of tied to one specific computer. I moved my shared file and all it's music and downloaded Itunes 9.0.1.8 onto the (H). Now Itunes doesn't recognize any songs. I have to locate each song for it from the shared file. If that's not bad enough, the "locate" button automatically goes into the C drive shared, I have to select my way into the H drive shared, then select the songs. We're talking over 1000 songs. Is there a better way. Also, I've done this with about a hundred songs so far but when I sync'd my Ipod, less than half of the checked songs that I've manually "located" end up on my Ipod. What can I do?

It asked for what Itunes Library and Consolidated automatically
It doesn't consolidate anything unless you tell it to. Consolidate copies everyhting you see in iTunes, into the iTunes music (or iTunes Media) folder.
It simply opened the library you selected.

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I'm assuming you're using your own user account on the computer that's separate from your other family members. If not, this procedure will move the other family members' photos as well as yours, so you might want to make a separate account if you don't already have one (System Preferences -> Accounts -> click the plus sign to add an account).
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I recently purchased the IPod 30 GB. I have an extensive Music CD collection and copied many songs from those CD's to the ITunes Library. When I attempt to sync the songs to my IPod I get a message saying that many of songs could not be found. This results in those songs not being copied to my IPod. This seems to be the case with approximately about 50 percent of the songs.
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When I looked up the info on the files that copied over to the IPod and those that did not the only differences were as follows:
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The ! next to the songs can mean several things. The files have been moved from the iTunes music folder, or deleted from your computer entirely. Or the song files have been renamed/edited or otherwise changed by some method other than iTunes. In any event, iTunes has lost track of these song files.
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I have had this happen to me on 3GS, 4 and 4s. Usually the solution is one of the following:
1- If your volume indicator says headphones even though they are not plugged in, then:
Stick your headphones into the headphone jack and then remove quickly.
2. If that does not work Power your phone off. Then when restarting Reset the phone by pressing the home button and the power button at the same time until the apple logo appears.
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weird very weird. today i did this again today after already being unsuccessful earlier. exactly the same thing as i have done before, exactly. didn't try to import. didn't say damaged library, copied everything in including date. have tried it about 10 times no luck. today it just worked.
how weird is that?
oh well JG - maybe you mixed a magic potion for me?
anyway, thank you for all the help.
to anyone else reading this all i can say is keep trying, you never know. follow the above advice. you may feel exasperated and think you have done it already, but keep trying.
cheers
P

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Apple ID FAQs > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5622
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http://macmost.com/five-ways-to-share-music-in-itunes.html

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Does this app not provide a video on how to sync it with itunes and then sync it to your phone.
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I got too brave and I transfered music and I-Tunes to portable drive

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