Itunes / Two Hard Drives / One Portable Computer
Hi. I have Itunes installed on my Mac Book Pro. My entire library is stored in an external hard drive in my home (library is pretty big 600GB.) I have an external hard drive in my office which is unused. I am looking for a way to get to listen to my music library at the office. This means one of the following:
1) Get to upload it somewhere in the internet and listen from there. Hopefully keeping my wallet happy.
2) A way to transfer it from one hard drive to another wither having them in the same room, network, or zip code for that matter.
4) Some kind of software that will make a backup (uncompressed) of my itunes library folder online and then I can restore it back at the office to my external hard drive there... allowing me to add changes incrementally.
5) A great idea from anyone out there to solve my problem.
Any ideas...?
Hi,
In addition to the above information,
If your operating system is Windows 2008 and higher(Server) or Windows Vista and higher(Client).
Then you can use the native tool Disk Management to solve your requirement.
For opening Disk Management, Right click -> Computer -> Select Manage -> As result Computer Management console opens -> In the left pane under storage select Disk Management.
In the Disk Management, for extending your C: drive,
- Since your partition layout as, C: drive | D: drive.
- After shrinking D: drive, the layout will be C: drive | D: drive | Unallocated space.
- Since the unallocated space is not contiguous, when you right-click C: drive the "Extend Volume" option will be greyed out.
- So to solve your requirement, you have to backup the data on D: drive -> Delete D: drive -> right-click on the c drive and select "Extend Volume" -> enter the size you want to add
- Finally you can create a new D: drive from the remaining unallocated space and restore the backup data.
Checkout the below thread on similar discussion,
how
to increase space in c drive
Regards,
Gopi
JiJi Technologies
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In addition to the above information,
If your operating system is Windows 2008 and higher(Server) or Windows Vista and higher(Client).
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For opening Disk Management, Right click -> Computer -> Select Manage -> As result Computer Management console opens -> In the left pane under storage select Disk Management.
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I have the following issue, I have my itunes (all music, tv shows,films andf iphone 4 back up) on an external hard drive that has 232GB of space I have read that i need to consolidate the libary to move it, but i have 137GB of information and it copies the folder to the same location i do not have enough space on the external hard drive or my old computer (it only has 60GB space) to do the consolidation.
I have plugged my hard drive into my new computer (sony running windows 7 64bit home premium) but cannot open itunes via the external hard drive.
My problem is I want to move my itunes to the new computer (which has a 500GB hard drive) how do i do this or do i need to buy an addtional hard drive to move the files (i do not wish to pay out more).
Does anybody know a way of doing this with the hard drive and the external hard drive (my other concern is that i do not want to lose all my contact on my iphone).
Thanks Nick UKHi Perilman,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities! I understand that all of your iTunes media is on an external hard drive and you would like to move that media onto your new Windows computer hard drive. The following article has step by step instructions for this specifically. Part 5 in the External drive section is probably what is going to be most relevant to you.
iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4527
Part 5: Copy music to your new computer
To copy all your music files (including the library file that holds all your playlists and other settings) to your new computer:
I hope this helps,
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Open Users & Groups preferences. Click on the lock icon and authenticate. CTRL- or RIGHT-click on your user account listing in the sidebar and select Advanced Options from the context menu.
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If I were to do this on the new MacBook Pros, what would one suggest to use for a hard drive? Also, if there is no firewire on the new MacBook Pros, does the speed of the external machine degrade if it's going over the USB?
I apologize if this isn't the most suitable category, but I thought it is related to an initial install I would do.Hi Ascension;
First of all the MBP does have Firewire 800. If you buy a drive that supports FW800 you will get the best performance from your external drive.
If you attempt to use USB there will be a noticeable degradation in performance. USB is not able to transfer data well at disk rates. It is more suited to keyboard and mouse rates.
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I am use to windows when you install a program regardless of where is it install it will appear in the programs part of start. I was wondering if there is a way to do something similar on mac?
Two things -
You really should only install programs in the /Applications folder on your system HD. Installing them in other locations is an invitation to problems.
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HELP, I have Itunes installed on two hard drives, need to consolidate!
I moved Itunes to a new hard drive on my computer a while ago (I didn't do it properly and it's been a headache ever since). When I downloaded the new version of Itunes it was installed on my main hard drive by default. All the music I had before is still on the new hard drive but since I've installed the latest version of itunes all the music I've loaded onto Itunes has been stored in my main drive. I now want to download the latest version of Itunes but do it on my new hard drive, but how do I do that and keep my playlists the way I already have them set up AND transfer the music that's on my main drive onto my new drive and keep everything in Itunes from changing?
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SeanIt is hard to tell exactly what the problem is from your description.
I think you have two hard drives in one computer. It is normal to install iTunes on the system drive, this doesn't stop you having music on the other drive.
The important thing is the location of the iTunes Music folder. This is set up in:
Edit>Properties>Advanced>General
My guess is that when you installed iTunes, it defaulted to setting the iTunes Music folder on your system drive.
It is hard to tell you what to do without knowing a little more.
Is the music on your new drive in your library? And what is the current setting for you iTunes Music folder? -
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First of all, I hooked his old hard drive to the computer with an IDE to USB converter so it mounts as just another drive.
I then installed the latest iTunes on his new PC and when we hooked up his iPod, it asked to blank the thing out (so I hit Cancel).
So my question is a little more complicated than most since I have two things to accomplish here. I not only want to move his existing iTunes library to his new PC but I also need iTunes to work with his existing iPod. Hopefully, that won't involve wiping it since he has songs on his iPod that he doesn't have on his old iTunes, but perhaps I'll need to somehow get all his songs off his iPod, let iTunes wipe the iPod, then put them all back? I imagine I'd need to bring his iTunes library over first.
Anyone have any ideas of the steps necessary to make this dance happen? I'm very computer literate, so detailed explanations aren't needed. I just need general directions and what order to do them in.
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I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that the music on his iPod isn't completely the same as what's in his iTunes. This is what made this move so strange. I needed to figure out not only how to move his iTunes music collection to a new PC, but also how to keep iTunes from wiping his iPod since he has music on it that isn't in his iTunes.
Since the new iTunes won't recognize his iPod without wiping it, is there any way to manually pull the music off his iPod, somehow put it in his iTunes folder so iTunes recognizes it, allow iTunes to wipe his iPod so he can synchronize iTunes with it, and finally put all his music back on his iPod?
Thanks,
Brian -
I recently had to install a new hard drive in my computer. This caused me to have to reload all content back to my iTunes and iPod. I have many apps on my iPod and i don't know how to transfer those back to my iTunes. Can anyone help?
Right clicking on your ipod in the device list an d choosing "transfer purchases" will copy apps and bought media from iTunes to your computer. Due to the new iTunes library on your new HD, iTunes will erase your ipod during the first sync. To save your data to the computer take a look at this article about saving data from your device to a computer: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4137
Basically it's backing up manually, transferring her purchases (apps and bought music), letting iTunes erase the ipod due to the new iTunes library, and restoring from the manual backup again, to get all the data and settings back.
Make sure your new computer account is authorized in iTunes. Disable autosync in itunes, connect your ipod, right click on it in the device list and choose backup.
This will save data, pictures and settings to itunes. See what's included in this backup here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
Transfer your purchases the same way to copy all apps and bought media from the Store to your computer.
Set up at least one contact and event on your computer to be able the merge your calendars and contacts after your ipod got wiped during the first sync.
The rest of the data can be restored from the backup you made.
Restoring: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
Music is one way only, from the computer to your device, unless you bought the songs in itunes and transferred your purchases.
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I recently replaced the hard drive in my computer. I am afraid to download and reinstall itunes again because I worry about losing all the music I had on my iPod Nano. Any suggestions for solutions?
The dragging does not work:
- Transfer iTunes purchases by:
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
- For other music you will need a third-party program like one of those discused here:
Copy music
- Connect the iPod to your compouter and make a backup by right clicking on the iPod under Devices in iTunes and select Back Up.
- Restore the iPod from that backup
Nothe that the backup that iTunees makes does not include synced media like apps nd music. -
I had to install a new hard drive on my computer, when I downloaded Itunes, all my music was gone. How do i get my music back? I do not have an Icloud.
Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive: Apple Support Communities
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What is the memory being used by, is it Other? If it is, that means the iPod can no longer read the music, so it has put it all in "Other".
The usual fix for this is to allow the iPod to Sync with its iTunes Library. If that doesn't work, the next option is to Restore the iPod using the Restore command in iTunes, on the Device/Summary pane.
Unless you are very (very) lucky, I suspect that you are going to have to Restore your iPod. Restoring will remove everything form the iPod and put back onto it only what it finds in your iTunes Library, which you say is currently empty.
If you have to rebuild your Library after this issue, by adding all the music back again, this is going to be hard to hear, but for the future, you may want to consider always having a backup of your library. The easiset way to back the Library up is;
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