Network drive and iTunes libraries

I added a NAS and successfully relocated my iTunes library to it. I purchased a few songs and verified that they were being saved to the NAS rather than my local drive. I then dragged some iPhone video clips from iPhoto into the home movies tab of iTunes as well as purchased some additional content only to find that it has reverted to storing new things back to my local drive. I went back to preferences, changed the media folder location back to the network drive.
My question is, iTunes now looks to 2 libraries, how can I merge the two?

Jolly Giant wrote:
the link above (CCC FAQ) says:
*Can I back up directly to an AFP or SMB network file share? How about to a Time Capsule?*
CCC can back up directly to an HFS+ formatted local volume, or to a disk image on any writable network volume. CCC cannot, however, backup directly to a network filesystem (e.g. AFP, SMB, CIFS, NAS, Airport Extreme "Airdisk", or Time Capsule). There are significant technical limitations to backing up an HFS+ filesystem to a non-HFS+ filesystem -- most notably preservation of ownership and permission information -- that would make it impossible to create a faithful, bootable, non-proprietary backup of your data. Therefore I recommend and support backing up only to a disk image on non-HFS+ filesystems.
JGG
Thank u for reporting that. Looks like the only option is going "old style": attach the drive directly to the mac and make a copy and paste of the data on the TC capsule drive. Thanks again.

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Network drives and iTunes

Hi,
Is iTunes able to read music off a Network Hard Drive if it does not have a drive letter?
alternatively, i'm also thinking of buying a network hard drive, installing windows and iTunes on it as well as putting my entire music collection on it. the idea is to then stream it to a wireless music device connected to my stereo in another part of my house. any ideas on what limitations i'm likely to come up against?? more importantly, will it work?
Thanks again
Jai K

Hello!
"Is iTunes able to read music off a Network Hard Drive?"
Sure! I've had it set up on an NAS drive for quite sometime. I've also been in the situation where I had music on a PC where my iBook was using it as a library. You just need to make sure that the drive/folder/whatever is shared and then point iTunes at it. Sounds like you might be using multiple platforms from the "no drive letter" comment. Is that right?
"i'm also thinking of buying a network hard drive, installing windows and iTunes on it as well as putting my entire music collection on it."
Well, like I said, my whole library is on an NAS as we speak. The part about installing iTunes on it is a bit tricky, though. iTunes stores info on the primary drive of the computer no mater where you put the library. I would think that even in this set up, you would end up with files in c:\...\[username]\My Music\iTunes. And this would be the file that contains all the actual library info such as playlists, what songs exist, etc. So it might just be easier to install iTunes on each machine and then make a habit of updating the library on a regular basis for each. This is easy, and I'd gladly help you there.
"the idea is to then stream it to a wireless music device connected to my stereo in another part of my house. any ideas on what limitations i'm likely to come up against?? more importantly, will it work?"
Limitations listed above. Depending on the device, purchased music (from the iTMS) might not work as many of these devices can't decode the songs. I know there are folks around here using (I believe) the ROKU soundbridge device. You might want to see if any are listening by starting a thread with either that or the name of the device you are looking at in the title. Another option that DOES support purchased music and is integrated with iTunes is the Airport Express, which lets you stream music to it then feed it to speakers or a stereo. Of course, it doesn't have any controls directly on it, but is easily controlled through the PC with iTunes.
Hope this helps point you in the right direction.

How do I migrate my iphoto and itunes libraries to an external hard drive, then point the programs to read them from that location?

Hi, do you know how I can migrate my iphoto and itunes libraries from my over-filled laptop to an external hard drive then point the programs to read from that location instead? I'm trying to make some space available on this old computer

To move iTunes...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449?viewlocale=en_US
...and iPhoto.....
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1229

Store music on a network drive and access from different computers

hi!
i have several mac's and windows pc's here and a windows server. i want to store my music on the server and let all itunes' access the same library to have ratings etc. all the same on all machines.
when i set the itunes folder to my network drive and open itunes it does not find any of my music.
my next idea was to run itunes on the server and to use the music sharing function but my macs can't access the windows itunes library because of some error -3259. my windows itunes can access the windows itunes without problems, the imacs itunes can't
anyhow its a bad solution when i have to sync my ipods with the server since this one is in the basement
does anybody know something about itunes libraries on a network drive ?
thanks a lot
philip

Hi !
Did nobody has developed a kind of sync tool yet ? Its interesting to know that the library is always stored locally. I think it should be possible then to copy the library from one computer to all others only the network name must be the same on all computers.
I'll try it

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Hi, I want to purchase a Black MacBook but the internal hard drive is not large enough. I wanted to purchase a Maxtor 300gb Network Hard Drive. I would be storing iTunes videos on it. How would the videos show up in iTunes and how could I download new videos to the external hard drive? Thanks

Yes you will have to mount the network drive each time (although I believe you can have it set to automatically mount). iTunes will not need its preferences set each time. If the source of your tracks is not available it will only complain once you try to play each individual track.
Yes, assuming the FireWire drive is already on and connected, when you turn on your MacBook the drive data will be immediately available to FrontRow.
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I recently upgraded my MBP hard drive, and decided I'd like to move my iphoto and itunes libraries back to my local drive from my Synology NAS. I thought this would be easily achieved by copying the libraries from the NAS and pasting them in the desired locations in the MBP, as I did to get them to the NAS in the first place. This will not work.
First off, when I try a simple copy and paste through finder, the transfer gets about half way through and suddenly stops with "You can't copy "iPhoto Library" because it has the same name as another item in the destination volume, and that volume doesn't distinguish between upper- and lowercase letters in filenames".
This occurs even if there is no Iphoto directory currently on the MBP.
I contacted Synology, and they attempted to have me use a windows transfer protocol to transfer the libraries, but when transferring this way I am stopped half way through with an "Error -8084" code.
I am aware that the MBP is formatted with MAC OS Extended (Journaled), and that the NAS is formatted differently, but there must be some way to get this back.
My itunes library contains all my family's ipad, and iphone back ups, in addition to around 35 gb of music. Additionally, I don't want to lose Event info in Iphoto.
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Thank you

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I want to do a clean install of Mountain Lion. Can I do this without a DVD version of the OS, and can I restore only specific things like iPhoto and iTunes libraries from Time Machine backup.

Mountain Lion is only available as a download, so there is no DVD to purchase. What you can do is download ML and then stop it from installing as soon as it's on your drive. From there you can make your own bootable ML flash drive.
When your purchase and download Mountain Lion, it will end up in the Applications folder and automatically want to install. Press Command+Q to stop the install and exit. The installer will remain on the hard drive.
1) Right click on the installer and choose "Show Package Contents".
2) A folder will open on the desktop. Drill down to Contents > SharedSupport and double click the disk image InstallESD.dmg to mount it on the desktop.
3) From here you can either burn a DVD, or copy the contents to a flash drive. Personally, I would strongly suggest using an 8 GB flash drive formatted as Mac OS Extended. You will be able to boot to it in about 30 seconds instead of at least 10 minutes off of a DVD, and it will install MUCH faster. Make sure the flash drive is empty, or you've copied anything off it it you need as it will need to be erased.
4) Don't just drag and drop the contents you see in the open disk image to the flash drive. It won't boot that way as it will be missing some hidden files. Open Disk Utility. You will something similar to this:
5) To accomplish the above, highlight either the flash drive's single partition (as I did), or the item at the bottom (Mac OS X Install ESD), which is what you will see with the Lion disk image mounted. It doesn't matter which one you pick. You'll then have the option to select the Restore tab towards the upper right. Drag and drop from the left column into the Source and Destination fields as shown above. If you've already erased the flash drive, you can uncheck the box. Click the Restore button.
You've just made your own bootable Mountain Lion USB Flash drive installer. Once you boot to the flash drive, run Disk Utility first to erase the drive you want Mountain Lion on, then continue with the install.
As far as restoring your iPhone and iTunes libraries, I couldn't tell you. So I wouldn't do any of the above until someone else chimes in with a way to do that after a clean install of ML.

I am trying to delete an XLS file from a network drive and am getting a message that says the file cannot be deleted because it is in use. I can't see where it is in use and have tried to reboot the computer to no avail.

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I have a Windows network share permanently mapped as a network drive on my system. This prevents Lenovo System Update 5 from updating itself.
Here is what happens:
Launch Lenovo System Update and click Next to look for updates.
When 'Searching for agent updates' it will tell me: 'System Update is updating itself. Your copy of System Update needs to be updated. Click OK to begin updating System Update.'
Click OK, Lenovo System Update will download the update and appear to install it.
At the end it will tell me: 'System Update was installed successfully'
Click Close, just to be sure I wait for a while so System Update can finish whatever it is doing in the background (if anything at all).
When nothing appears to happen I launch Lenovo System Update manually and it will tell me it needs to update itself again, and go to the same process as above. The update did not install successfully at all. System update keeps updating itself in a loop.
Next thing I tried is manually downloading the latest System Update version from http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?LegacyDocID=TVSU-UPDATE
I downloaded systemupdate503-09-17-2013.exe for my Windows 7 machine.
The installer detects to old version of System Update and offers to uninstall that. I click Yes.
A moment later the real error appears: 'Error 1327.Invalid Drive: S:\'
The only thing I can do now is press OK to close the installer.
The S:\ drive is my network drive which is permanently mapped to a share on my NAS.
It is not an invalid drive, S:\ opens fine in Windows Explorer.
I don't know why the System Update installer wants to access my S: drive in the first place. All my applications are installed on C:. While I did move some special folders like My Pictures and My Videos to S:, the relevant folders My Documents and Desktop are still on C:.
I have found a workaround to the problem above:
Close Lenovo System Update completely when it says it needs to update itself.
Run Command Prompt as Administrator (find it in the start menu, righ-click it and 'Run as administrator').
Type 'subst s: c:\' without the quotes. Replace s: with the drive letter of your network drive, and c: should be an existing regular drive.
Now run Lenovo System Update again and let it update itself.
You'll notice System Update now restarts itself after updating and there are no problems.
Once you are done with System Update, type 'subst s: /D' to delete the substituted virtual drive. Don't worry, this will not delete your actual network drive.
The workaround does the job, but it would be nice to see an actual fix from Lenovo. I have a ThinkPad X230 running 64bit Windows 7 Professional if this is relevant.

Please try either of the workaround.
1. Create a new Admin user, log on in that and then you can install Adobe Reader,
or
2. easier solution is just create a dummy folder on your machine anywhere, lets says Folder name "Dummy" in c:\
not go to command prompt
and type subst I: c:\dummy
and you are all set to go.
once you are done, you can remove that virtual drive mapping by
subst I:\ /d
please let me know if works.

How to use external hard drive and iTunes together?

how to use external hard drive and iTunes together?

Yes I did get to that part.... I went trough external to retrive itunes folder... When I selected the folder, it said that it was locked, choose another folder... I then went to my external again to my itunes folder and and used command I to see if folder was locked and it wasn't.... it was suggested on another forum to reboot.. which I did and still same problem... All I want to do is link my external hard drive that has my itunes playlist from another Mac to my new one.. and to also use the external as the main source for adding new songs to my playlist...

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How do iPhoto and iTunes libraries connect to iMovie?

I'm still having trouble with iMovie '08 being unable to "see" or show still photos or sounds from the iPhoto and iTune libraries. It does not seem to even know those libraries exist.
Can someone at least tell me how iMovie normally connects to those libraries? What file tells it where to look?

In iMovie 11, there is a Preferences file called com.Apple.iApps.plist. If you move this preferences file to the trash, it will reset the links to iTunes and iPhoto. I haven't had iMovie 08 for several years, but I assume there is a similar preferences file for iMovie 08.
In general, the steps would be...
Close iMovie, iPhoto, and iTunes.
In the Finder, find this file and move it to the trash. Empty the Trash.
Restart iTunes. Restart iPhoto.
Restart iMovie.
It should be in the Home/Library/Preferences folder. (Macintosh HD/<Your user name>/Library/Preferences/)

HELP! Deleted iPhoto and iTunes Libraries by changing name?!?!?

Hey guys,
My friend had two user accounts on his Mac. One was "Chris" and one was "Katie". The only one that was ever used was "Chris". Since his wife used the Mac a lot more than he did he thought it would be funny to change the user name from "Chris" to "Katie's Big Mac". The short name was not changed at all. He then deleted "Katie". I guess that deleted all the iPhoto and iTunes Libraries. But that was it.
Does any one know why it did this? I told her to look under Users: Chris: Music: iTunes: iTunes Music: and all of the old files were there. She dragged one of the files over and dropped it in iTunes to copy it over and then she went back to get more and they all disappeared from the folder iTunes Music. I didn't tell her to do this she did it on her own.
The iPhoto Library is totally empty though. Does anyone know why this happened and how to fix it?
Thanks in advance.
Ammon
PM G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Okay it's fixed now. All he did was change the old names back to the way they were, recreate "Katie", and it all came back. He had to reload the libraries for iPhoto and iTunes but that was it. All other prefs are fine. But the weird part is that now the files that were in Chris are now in Katie. Thanks for your help.
Ammon

I am new to mac. Do I need to store photos on the hard drive to use iPhoto or can I store pics on a network drive and still edit with iPhoto?

I am new to mac. Do I need to store photos on the hard drive to use iPhoto or can I store pics on a network drive and still edit with iPhoto?

iPhoto needs to have the Library sitting on disk formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Users with the Library sitting on disks otherwise formatted regularly report issues including, but not limited to, importing, exporting, saving edits and sharing the photos.
See this article
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5168
for more. Note also the comment:
“Additionally, storing the iPhoto library on a network rather than locally on your computer can also lead to poor performance or data loss.”

Network Drive and 3 Macs- trying to share music

Help
I want to reconfigure my music storage the right way to avoid the problems I'm having
My set up: 3 Macs and one large network drive
Mac mirror door (non-intel)
iMac (intel)
Mac Mini (Intel)
1 terabyte (RAID 5) Snapserver network drive
I am hoping to store all of the music on the network drive, let each Mac "point" to the music and not load music files onto each mac
When I use the advanced preferences and share the same folder with all music I am getting duplicates every time
All three mac local itunes libraries are a mess with lots of duplicates
Do you have a solution?
Would Library Manager and/or Dupin help me??
I am willing to reload/ move music, etc. I just want to do it right.
Thanks in advance
Mike

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