New Hard drive, new folder.
Hey guys, hope your all well after x-mas.
My question is this, I have a new 2nd internal hard drive installed, my old itunes library folder was stored on my original hard drive but I want to move it over to my newer one as its bigger and the older one quite full.
Do I simply just drag the Itunes music folder over to my new drive and let itunes take care of the rest, i.e does it find where the songs are automatically or do I need to specifically tell it where the new folder is? If so how do I do this?
Thanks for any help guys.
Dev
Dual 1.8 gig G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)
This article will tell you how to do it:
iTunes: Moving your iTunes Music folder
Read it carefully. It's easy to overlook a step.
M
17' iMac fp 800 MHz 768 MB RAM Mac OS X (10.3.9) Several ext. HD (backup and data)
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