I have my iTunes library on a hard drive. I want to link it with my Mac. How do i get it to recognise that is where my library is?

how do I get my Mac to recognise that my iTunes library is on a hard drive?

go to itunes>preferences>advanced and change the iTunes Media folder location to point to the external drive's music folder. make sure the drive is on and connected before starting iTunes each time, otherwise iTunes will default to it's default location when you start iTunes.

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