Removing folders that Itunes monitors for new music

How do I make it so Itunes wil stop looking for music in a particular folder that I did and "add folder to Library" on? I added a removable drive as a folder that Itunes searches for music on. Now I don't want itunes to look for music in that foler anymore how do I remove it from the folders that Itunes searches?

iTunes does not automatically watch folders for new music. The only exceptions are the one-time scan on a new install, and the new Automatically Add to iTunes folder that is new in iTunes 9. What are you trying to do?

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hi,
i have a large library of music that i used to store on an internal hard drive (f:), but recently i got an external hard drive and moved all my music to it (g:).
i copied all my music to the g drive, and in the advanced pull down menu in itunes i changed the location to search for music to g: my music... at that point i thought i was done.
but as it turned out, whereas i thought i had MOVED all my files to the g drive, i had actually copied them, and the ones that were originally on the f drive are still there.
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if i go to a song that was in the library before i switched over to the g drive, in the get info window for that song in itunes, it still lists the song as living in the f drive as opposed to the g drive.
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Welcome to Apple Discussions!
If you delete everything from your iTunes library
(Moving it to the Recylcle Bin), you can then go to
File>Add Folder to Library and select the Music
folder from your external drive.
Or, from the file browser you can locate the Music
folder on the external drive and drag+drop it into
the iTunes window.
Hope this helps!
hi,
okay... this worked sort of, but now i've lost all my playlists. they are still on my actual ipod, but now i need to know... if i go to sync the ipod with itunes, will itunes recognize my playlists and move them into itunes? or do i now need to go through and manually re-setup all my playlists BEFORE syncing again, because the playlists will get wiped out when i go to sync?
please let me know if you have any info about this... i really don't want to lose all my playlists.
thanks,
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Removing folders that Itunes monitors for new music

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