Is my external HD crashing iTunes?
Hi there
To save space I recently moved all my movie files to an external HD (Iomega eGo, USB 2.0).
I removed all my movies from iTunes, then unchecked 'copy all files to my iTunes folder when I add to library' in the 'advanced' preferences, and added all my films from my external HD back into the library
But now whenever I click on 'movies' in iTunes, it simply crashes the application. It's about 150GB of m4v files - is my HD not fast enought? I thought USB 2.0 was supposed to actually be quicker than the laptop-style HD of my 2010 mini?
Robbie Cooke wrote:
Do you think the speed of USB 2.0 crashing my iTunes?
Not at all.
Try this.
Copy the entire /Music/iTunes/ folder to the external.
Hold Option and launch iTunes.
Select Choose library and select the iTunes folder you copied to the external.
Everything should work fine. Post back.
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