IMPORTING PROBLEMS...EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE

1. Certain CD's get "stuck" importing...always on the first song...good cds, bad cds, previously imported CDs, some CDs from an artist will import and some from the same artist will not..ABSOLUTELY BAFFLED...any ideas
2. This is what I want to happen, could someone tell me if this is possible...I have an external hard drive...I want to be able to put all my music on the hard drive and use whatever computer I want to access that music through itunes on that external hard drive.
3. Once I put all my music on that hard drive and then I buy a new cd and want to put it on there, how do I add to the library on the hard drive without over writing it?
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First I would make sure that your iMovie Projects folder is at the top level of the drive. Also the iMovie Events folder must be at the top level of the drive. If you have them inside any other folder, iMovie will not see them.
(The exception to this is on your startup drive. There, iMovie expects to find these folders in the Movies folder.)
If that does not work, I would recheck the formatting of the drive. Instructions for formatting are here.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4362

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and the only time I see the pixellation problem is when the original photo's file size is small.
What did you expect? Of course if the file size is small it won't print well. There isn't enough data to create a reasonable quality print.
Web Photos are - typically - very heavily compressed to speed up downloading. I've seen Facebook photos - for instance - lose 90% of their file size after being "processed". There is no way that a 20kb file is going to print well at any size greater than a postage stamp.
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File not found after importing from external hard drive

I have been importing music from an external hard drive into my Itunes account. Some of the songs transfer fine, but some of them show up in Itunes as being imported, but when I go to listen to them I get a file not found message because the original file cannot be found. If I have the hard drive plugged in there is no problem, but without it I get that message.
Any advice? I"d really like to get all music set up in Itunes.

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
The iPhoto Help section is very helpful
Reading this forum will teach you a lot about iPhoto
If you have not taken the iPhoto tutorials yet you should - http://www.apple.com/support/iphoto/
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No I tried both neither seems to be working on my system. I used Duplin version 2.5 because 2.6 requires Leopard and I am running tiger.
this is a mess, and I haven't done anything but import the files, I don't want to start setting up play list until I can figure out one of two things.
Why it did it in the first place, I could delete everything and reimport.
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(what should i drag over?)
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All of it, as a unit.
To restore an iPhoto Library drag the iPhoto Library Folder to the Pictures Folder and start iPhoto. There's no importing involved.
All of the "clutter" is necessary for running iPhoto. If you don't want it, use a different app.
It is strongly advised that you do not move, change or in anyway alter things in the iPhoto Library Folder as this can cause the application to fail and even lead to data loss
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TD

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lksj wrote:
How can I move my backed up Itunes library from my external hard drive to my new internal hard drive? I went through the steps listed on the support page, and imported the .xml playlist that I moved to the desktop. Now all my playlists (names only) are on Itunes, but there is no content. Help?
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click +choose library+ and navigate to the _iTunes library file_ on your internal HD.
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Hi, try the following:
select the external HD in the finder and press >cmd-i<
unlock and make sure you are the owner
now choose >Apply to enclosed items……<
Have a nice day!

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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
The iPhoto Help section is very helpful
Reading this forum will teach you a lot about iPhoto
If you have not taken the iPhoto tutorials yet you should - http://www.apple.com/support/iphoto/
Make mistakes and fix them - that's the way I do it
LN

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maxus2:
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Thanks, Terence.
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I have my iTunes music folder stored on an external hard drive. I recently purchased a new Mac. After attaching the external hard drive, all the songs imported without any problem except my Playlists. Any clue about where they are or how to revive them

I have my iTunes music folder stored on an external hard drive. I recently purchases a new Mac. After attaching the external hard drive, all songs imported without a problem except my playlists. Any clue about where they are or how to revive them for use on my new Mac?
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Rysz wrote:
To retain your playlists, artwork, play counts, etc, you need to move the entire iTunes folder, not just the music files..
Correct.
After that just select the new folder location in iTunes> Advanced settings.
Incorrect.
Hold Option and launch iTunes.
Select Choose library and select the iTunes folder.
This will read the iTunes library.itl file in this folder and the library as it was previously will be opened.

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