The external hard drive with my iTunes library on it died, but I have it backed up on another drive. What's the best way to make iTunes switch to the new drive for reference?
I've been through similar problems before and used the .xml file to restore the library, but is a better way of just changing the drive pathways in iTunes so it doesn't have to rebuild everything from scratch? I'm using a PC with Windows Vista.
Change the drive letter of the backup drive so it matches the one that died. If necessary move/rename the backup folder so that it matches the old path of the media folder.
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YouTube recommends doing this to avoid sync problems. Maybe it will also make my videos run more smoothly. I'm talking here about random pauses I see in my movies on YouTube, not the uniform stuttering problem which I pretty much solved by redoing the movie at 30 fps instead of 24 fps. (Original is 18 fps Super 8 movie film.)
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Since I've downloaded all of the "automatic upgrades" for both my iPhone and iTunes, once the "automatic sync" finishes when I connect my iPhone to my MAC, I have no way of finding my device and no way to mark new songs I've added to my music library on my MAC so they will automatically be uploaded to my iPhone the next time I connect it and do the automatic sync...
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An exception occured within the external code called by a Call Library function Node
Good Morning,
I built a VI that contains Matlab nodes in Labview 8.0. I made an executable and gave it to a colleage to use who is running Windows XP. I see in the folder C:\Program Files\National Instruments\Shared\LabVIEW Run-Time that she has 7.1 and 8.0 run time engines installed.
On Friday the executable ran great on her machine. Today, when she tried running it I received the following error. "LabVIEW: An exception occured within the external code called by a Call Library Function Node. This might have corrupted LabVIEW's memory. Save any work to a new location and restart LabVIEW. 'my vi' was stopped at node 0x0 of subVI "NI_AALBase.lvlib:Real A x B.vi:1". This error occured after part of the program ran properly. More specifically, two of the matlab nodes ran perfectly. I am unsure about the third because the program stopped too early. I do have to multiply two matrices using the subvi Real A x B. Is this causing the error?
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If anyone could help, I would be very appreciative.
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Good Morning,
I built a VI that contains Matlab nodes in Labview 8.0. I made an executable and gave it to a colleage to use who is running Windows XP. I see in the folder C:\Program Files\National Instruments\Shared\LabVIEW Run-Time that she has 7.1 and 8.0 run time engines installed.
On Friday the executable ran great on her machine. Today, when she tried running it I received the following error. "LabVIEW: An exception occured within the external code called by a Call Library Function Node. This might have corrupted LabVIEW's memory. Save any work to a new location and restart LabVIEW. 'my vi' was stopped at node 0x0 of subVI "NI_AALBase.lvlib:Real A x B.vi:1". This error occured after part of the program ran properly. More specifically, two of the matlab nodes ran perfectly. I am unsure about the third because the program stopped too early. I do have to multiply two matrices using the subvi Real A x B. Is this causing the error?
This is most likely an error with the use of the Call Library Node, but not in the Real A x B.vi itself. This is a VI that comes with LabVIEW and has been tried and tested many times and unless your LabVIEW installation is messed up simply shouldn't fail in such a way on its own.
However you do include Matlab code somewhere and that might be more likely to cause this. Are you using the built in MathScript node or some other way to communicate directly to a Matlab DLL or such?
Are you using anywhere Call Library Nodes that you have created or that did at least not come standard with LabVIEW?
Rolf Kalbermatter
Rolf Kalbermatter
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Hello, before I start I should mention that I have been reading about various tools and looking at wiki articles. But I have had some trouble getting started.
What I would like is an install cd that installs the packages I choose. I'd like this to be either automatic, or allow me to select the packages I want (which are presumably on the cd), just like in the normal way of installing arch perhaps, maybe.
I'd just like a way of installing arch, the way it is set up now, with minimal hassle, no internet access, just pop the cd in and out comes archlinux with a nice desktop environment so I can give it to my mum without having to travel hundreds of miles to install it for her.
"just pop the cd in and out comes archlinux with a nice desktop environment" -Ahahahahahaha, I hear you react. Well, you know, at least I would like it to be no MORE difficult than the standard install procedure.
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Should I maybe start HERE?
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It says it "may contain old, confusing and wrong information" -how unusual...
Larch looks pretty good, will this do what I want?
I actually think larch is definitely the answer. I'm gonna mark it solved. Even though I will probably have some trouble with it. Sorry for asking this question for the hundredth time, but, well, the forums were down yesterday (the day I was trying to do this, obviously).
Maybe I'll leave it unsolved until I get specific errors...
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Yeah, I like xfce, but I'd give her the excellent chakra if I was going to give her a ready made thing, which I might do if things go wrong...
But that isn't what I'm trying to do. I want to learn how to build an install disc, too. It takes me a long time to get arch up and running. I would like to know how to automate it so that I end up with my own personal humble distribution.
I realize there are many alternatives to doing what I am trying to do. But there are a hundred reasons I can think of why a custom archlinux install cd made by me that goes "do you want to install y/n" and then you press y and it formats the disk, shoves the stuff on and then it works would be the best option.
This assumes, of course, that my mum can plug in the computer, monitor, mouse, keyboard and speakers, insert the disc and press y, all of which are long shots.
Anyway, I'm making some progress with larch now. I can roughly see how it's going to work, it's pretty straightforward, so it would seem.
Thanks!
Yeah I see your point. I like archiso because he has a barebone option there, and you can build it the way you like it from there. I just had trouble getting Arch to run for me, so his iso was just easier as I am very unlearned in linux, and at 63 I dont have a lot of time, or energy to learn what it seems everyone but me knows. I still have to work to earn a living, and with a limited education I may be more dense than alot of the younger folks on here, so this just made it a little easier for me. Good luck with it, I hope you get what your after.
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I have filled my hard drive, half with music, half with photos. I want to take my music off, and put it onto an external hard drive. However, I would still like to have access to favourite songs and playlists when the external hard drive isn't plugged in. I would also like to access this music to use with iMovie. Is there a way to do this?
You will have to engage a split library which means you will have to start answering questions on this forum because you will need to learn a lot about how iTunes works in order not that have a big mess at the end of it all. It also won't be easy when the time comes to relocate it all to different drives.
You can go to advanced preferences and turn off organize media and copy to items to media folder when adding items to library. Next read about how to selectively consolidate items to the external drive.
Sept. 2010, Consolidate selected content - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2589812 and April 2014, https://discussions.apple.com/message/25414357
"...selected the new tracks directly in iTunes, Control-clicked on the selection, and saw that now you can consolidate selected items." - http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20090919000326840
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If you add tracks in bunches to iTunes and want them to go to different media folders you will need to either add them by holding down the option key while dragging if the desired media folder is not the one set in preferences, or by changing the media folder in preferences. Changing media folder preferences only applies to new files added, not old ones.
Okay, I am going to stop typing because you might just reply to me, "Oh, okay, forget it," and I don't need the exercise.
What are the iTunes library files? - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1660
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What are all those iTunes files? - http://www.macworld.com/article/139974/2009/04/itunes_files.html
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I copied an old iTunes library off my old Toshiba laptop with windows xp and put it on an external hard drive. I have a newer Microsoft surface pro laptop with windows 8.1. I have a small iTunes library on my newer laptop. I want to combine the 2 libraries into 1, add newer podcasts to the combined library daily, but keep it all on my external hard drive, so I don't use all my memory on my surface pro. I have an older ipod classic that I have all my old library on. I love it and don't want to stop using it, but want to be able to add podcasts from my 1 library from time to time. What I usually do is download podcasts for a few weeks then, download them to my ipod. Haven't done any of this in about a year. But want to start getting regular with it again. PS I'm not very computer savy Thanks for any help or advice!
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Once iTunes is using the library on the external drive you can add any content stored on the internal drive to the library by drag & drop or by moving/copying the content into \iTunes\iTunes Media\Automatically Add to iTunes. Make sure the option under Edit > Preferences > Advanced to Copy files to the folder iTunes Media when adding to library is selected. Once complete you can delete the original copies on the internal drive.
Should your library contain duplicates after merging see this recent post on deduping.
If there are ratings, playlists, play counts, or content stored on the iPod classic and not located anywhere else then see Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
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You can go to advanced preferences and turn off organize media and copy to items to media folder when adding items to library. Next read about how to selectively consolidate items to the external drive.
Sept. 2010, Consolidate selected content - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2589812 and April 2014, https://discussions.apple.com/message/25414357
"...selected the new tracks directly in iTunes, Control-clicked on the selection, and saw that now you can consolidate selected items." - http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20090919000326840
Remember that when you start iTunes without the external drive turned on iTunes will present you with a bunch of broken links. If you have automatic downloads enabled with iCloud you may have to turn that off to prevent iTunes from repopulating your drive trying to deal with those "missing" tracks.
If you add tracks in bunches to iTunes and want them to go to different media folders you will need to either add them by holding down the option key while dragging if the desired media folder is not the one set in preferences, or by changing the media folder in preferences. Changing media folder preferences only applies to new files added, not old ones.
Okay, I am going to stop typing because you might just reply to me, "Oh, okay, forget it," and I don't need the exercise.
What are the iTunes library files? - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1660
More on iTunes library files and what they do - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes#Media_management
What are all those iTunes files? - http://www.macworld.com/article/139974/2009/04/itunes_files.html
Where are my iTunes files located? - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1391 -
I got a new computer and backed up my iTunes library to an external hard drive. The external hard drive is not allowing me to access the drive. I no longer have access to the old computer. Is there a way to transfer the songs from my iPod touch to my new computer?
That's a bummer, didn't realize the exHD files were corrupt, esp if you have tried from another PC and not just this new computer.
You can get purchases from the itunes store transferred from an iPod using these directions:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848?viewlocale=en_US
If you want everything (meaning non-itunes songs, app data, photos, etc) you need to buy a 3rd-party ipod manager that support iTouch. Here is an iLounge article to start your research:
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I have a macbook pro with only 128gb of hard drive. I have lightroom installed and all my photos on an external hard drive. Can I store my lightroom library on the external hard drive too?
Yes. Find the LR catalog file by looking in Edit/Catalog Settings/General. Close LR and navigate to that spot. The catalog file is the one that ends in .lrcat - move it to wherever you want. Next to the .lrcat file is a subfolder called Previews.lrdata. You can move that over as well, but if you don't LR will generate new previews. Double-click on the .lrcat file in its new home and LR will open with that catalog. Set Preferences to When Starting Up Use Most Recent Catalog.
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I have several HD videos stored on an external hard drive and would like to bring them into iTunes and play them via iTunes on my Apple TV2, but I am not sure how to go about it. I don't want to store the movies on my iMac hard drive because it would eat up to much space...so do I just move the iTunes Library to the external hard drive? And, if so...will the Apple TV2 find the iTunes Library on the external hard drive? Thanks for any help anyone can suggest.
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The simplest method is to just move your library to an external drive.
If you wanted to keep just movies on an external drive, that's a little more difficult. You'd need to put the movies where you want them to reside on the external drive and add drag and drop them onto iTunes while holding down the option key. Obviously any movies already in iTunes would need moving from their current location and removing from iTunes first. -
Hi,
I have a macbook pro, and sooooo much music the hard drive is already full and i'm not halfway thru importing all my cds, I have hooked up a 2TB external hard drive and used it to back up my hard drive with time machine but i want to use the remaining space on the external drive to store every cd that i have so i can become a cd free household. How do I copy music onto my hard drive thru itunes so it adds to my library but runs off my external hard drive rather than my already over loaded internal hard drive?
also is there a way of selecting music already on my hard drive to be shipped over to the external hard drive to free up space on my macbook, as the lack of disc space occasionally causes problems working on dj programmes and garage band when i am recording large files o my hard drive in realtime as i am making them.Yes you can. Open iTunes preferences and select advanced. In the iTunes Media folder location use your external location.
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I use an external hard drive as a Time Machine back up, but I want to use another external hard drive to save movies, photos on it, but it won't give me the option to save anything on the new external hard drive. Nothing is wrong with the external hard.
Hi Clarkett99,
To use an external hard drive for your iTunes library, see the steps in this article -
iTunes: Back up your iTunes library by copying to an external hard drive
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751
iPhoto can be used in a similar way, follow the steps in this previous discussion -
how do I save photos and their albums...: Apple Support Communities
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3744259
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L
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