IMac cannot find library after moving from external hard drive?

After transferring my library from an external hard drive to my new imac the library cannot be found by itunes, although i can see the content in the folder I selected in advanced preferences and the content appears to br there

In Preferences set the loaction of the library that should do the trick.
I have about 1TB of content on an external drive and it works sweetly ( drive needs to be turned on before launching iTunes ).

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I have moved my itunes music files over to an external hard drive. My issue now is it gives me the message, it cannot locate the song. I have to find it myself. I have a large music library. Is there any way I can do it all together, instead of each song?

If you move the songs yourself, iTunes will still look for them in the old location because you did not update the iTunes database (by moving the music incorrectly).
To fix your problem, do this...
Open iTunes prefs -> Advanced and make sure the iTunes music folder location is set to the iTunes music folder on the external.
Then run this script -> iTunes Track CPR v1.3
In the future, the correct way to move your music is...
Go to iTunes menu Edit -> prefs -> Advanced.
Set the iTunes music folder location to where you want on the external drive.
Now go to iTunes menu File -> Library -> Consolidate.
This will copy everything in iTunes to the location on the external.
Once it is finished, you can delete \Music\iTunes\ iTunes music folder.
Delete ONLY the iTunes music folder on the internal.

Iweb not finding photos after move to external hard drive...

so I moved all my photos by copying the iphoto library to a external hard drive, deleting the old library, and telling iphoto to look to the external to find the photos and iphoto works fine.
I launched iweb, tried to go into media, and it said please launch iphoto 2 or later to show photos...I did so and nothing.
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Steve

Might be a job for symbolic links!
I thought there used to be a GUI way to create symbolic links, but maybe there never was.
Anyway, here's a "little" background.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2001110610290643
And, if you're comfortable in the terminal, what you want to do is create a Pictures symbolic link that points to the one on your external drive (not sure what problem this might cause iPhoto... may want to point it to the symbolic link as well).
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I had downloaded some files to add to an external hard drive, the hard drive was assigned to a pc before adding these files so it wouldn't let me add files from my MacBook..
Had a look around online and made some changes (well thats what I thought) and I was able to transfer files form my MacBook onto the external hard drive.
What I then figured out was that there was nothing left on the hard drive except for the two file sI just transferred..
It turns out I deleted everyting without noticing.
The stpes I followed was to go to disk utility then select the hard drive and click erase (not knowing this would erase evrything).
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I tried using Disk Drill, which found the files but then it said I need to buy the full version to recover them.
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The files are still on the drive, and will remain unless and until you overwrite them with new data. So don't write anything more to the drive in addition to the two files you added after reformatting it, and do download the free trial version(s) of one or more data recovery utilities:
Data Rescue 3: http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
FileSalvage 7: http://subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id= 1
Each is offered in a free demo version that will show you exactly what the full version could recover before you have to pay for anything. There are others on the market, but these are the ones I'm familiar with.
To recover data using any such utility, you must have another drive available on which to save the recovered files. Saving them on the same drive they're being recovered from would just overwrite other files that haven't yet been recovered.

Can my whole iTunes library be moved to external hard drive?

I am needing to free up space on my laptop and am wanting to move my library to an external hard drive. I have copied it to my hard drive but am unsure of what to do next... Do I just delete items from library or is there a way just to take the file over with out deleteing? Any help on this matter would be greatly appriceated.
Thanks Jason

This article was quite helpful and by following the steps I was able to move content to the external hard drive the only thing I wished that I had done, was to make this move alot sooner waiting for everything to copy is quite boring.
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Due to space issues on my Mac Book Pro, I moved my iPhoto library to an external hard drive. Once the transfer was complete I created a new library and then tried to relaunch the old library off the Ext HD. It now tells me the library is locked or on a locked device or I don't have permission. Neither of the those are in effect. The Ext HD is fine, when I go to Get Info on the iPhoto library it says I have custom access. and the locked box is not checked.
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what do you see if you depress the option key and launch iPhoto and use the select library command? Can you access your library on the EHD that way?
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Search Amazon - Davie Pogue I believe has released the missing manual for Leopard - it is a good general reference Liz Castro did a great book on iPhoto 05 but has not done one for '08 as of now
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I've transferred an unfinished movie from an external hard drive back onto my mac but now when I play it the audio jolts and is crackly for lack of a better word. How can I fix this?
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if your main library is on your external, then when not connected, you wont have access to it.
so first decide, where do you want to keep the files.
E.g. In my case, I keep my files on "C:\iTunes Music".
I have a backup on external "Z:\iTunes Backup". If I format my laptop, this is how I restore everything.
Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced.
The iTunes music folder in selects as "C:\iTunes Music"
I have checked Keep iTunes Music Folder Organized, and also Copy Files to iTunes Music folder when adding to ibrary". Click OK to save and close preferences.
My iTunes list is now empty. I go to file, and select "Add Folder to Library". From that window, I select "Z:\iTunes Backup". iTunes then copies everything from the backup to "C:\iTunes Music". For me, backup is backup, I dont need it to play music.
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Please help, I have accidentally managed to permanently delete my iphoto library and by this I mean that I somehow dragged my library into trash and then emptied it. I don't know how this happend but I quite quickly found out I had done it and shut my computer down. I have since done a recovery with disk drill and have hopefully recovered most of my photos though I havent had time to look through all the 1000's of photos yet. I do have a copied version of my library on an external hard drive that I did in 2012 and I have tried to copy this library back to my pictures folder so i at least have my photos up to 2012 back but it is not working. I have read through some of the threads on here regarding iphoto library back ups and I think the issue might be that the external hard drive is formatted Fat32 and not os extended.
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4. If I try to open the library through iphoto by holidng down the option key, iphoto tells me that the library has to be upgraded but i am reluctant to upgrade the original copy of the library. I would prefer to copy it first in case anything goes wrong but then i have the problem above that the copy doesn't work
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The copied iphoto library is on an external hard drive that is fat32 formatted.
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Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
1 - download the free version of iPhoto Library Manager and launch.>Click on the Add Library button,
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4 - now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the Library ➙ Rebuild Library menu option
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