Trying to get my events off of my external hard drive on imovie

I have a thunderbolt drive and events on them and can no longer see them in the library. any thoughts?

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Hey everyone. I'm fairly new to the forums but I've been a Mac user for almost 15 years now. Unfortunately, on the tech side of things, I'm mediocre at best so I have a question I wanted to see if anyone could offer a few suggestions or even a small glimmer of hope.
I have a LaCie Porsche Firewire based 160 GB external drive. It was mostly used for my G4 tower running classic OS. It apparently died all of the sudden (no trauma or anything..just wouldn't show up on my desktop). I took it and connected it to my MacBook Pro and it still wouldn't show up. On System Profiler, it wouldn't detect the type of drive or size and on Utilities, it wouldn't read at all.
Knowing LaCie, I thought it was the drive case (It's a seagate inside) so I got another external casing (a USB 2 type from Circuit City).
That failed to produce any kind of detection on the MacBook Pro as well. I have Disk Warrior but since it's not detecting, it won't recover any data. And I fear the worst at this point.
But if anyone has any suggestions as to how to get that drive to be detected, I'd be eternally grateful. I've checked the firewire and USB cords and they seem fine.
I have a G4 (digital audio) tower...can I try to install the drive INTO that tower and do a target mode startup?
Can I connect it via firewire to the tower and do a target startup from my MacBook Pro externally?
Should I try a different, particular external casing?
I'm willing to try anything before sending it out for data recovery. I realize it may be my only hope but I simply can't afford the service right now unfortunately.
Any suggestions...ANY suggestion would be greatly appreciated. I would be eternally grateful if I could somehow salvage even half of the files that are super important to me personally and professionally both.
Thanks in advance and a happy new year to everyone.

It's either the drive, the case, or both. Make tests to eliminate each factor.
I assume it makes the spinning noise, and it's IDE/PATA and 3.5" form factor, and it's formatted so all your machines (Classic, OSX) can see it.
-Yes, I would try another case. Some cases require the bare drive to have a jumper set to master, slave, or cable detect. There is no telling how yours come in the Lacie, or what a new case may require. At worst, you look on the chart on the drive case, and try all 3. I make a point of having a known good case, and I prefer Firewire. Look at Disk Utility when the case is connected and note whether it even sees a case connected (which has its own interface chip), even if a drive is not seen or mounted. Ditto with System Profiler.
-Yes, you can install it internally in your G4 tower. For purposes of seeing if it works at all, don't bother with Target Disk Mode, just connect it and see if it mounts on the G4. Again, be aware of the master/slave/cable select jumper setting required.
-It may be that the bare drive is blown. For most people, a data recovery service may be the only answer. Expensive.

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My iPhone 4S is currently in recovery mode and I'm trying to restore it. I'm stuck overseas so I haven't been able to update the iOS software for a few months and iTunes on my computer won't restore my phone without installing the latest software (which is a 920 MB download). The problem though is that the base I'm on has wifi but the server resets its connection every few hundred MB you download (this is to prevent people from monopolizing bandwidth all day long). The iOS download however is an 'all or nothing' download so I have now watched it get to 500 MB three times before resetting the connection and when that happens the download starts over from scratch. I called apple support and worked out that the only way for me to download this update is through a hardwired connection. We have several computers available that have a hardwire connection but I can't install anything on them since they are US government owned. So what I basically need to be able to do is access my iTunes off of an external hard drive, download the update to that drive, and then copy the update to my phone so that I can restore my phone from the backups on my computer. Is there anyone out there who can give me a step-by-step to doing this? Otherwise my phone is an expensive paperweight until I can get back to a place with high speed internet that I can connect to my personal computer. Thanks.

You can put your iTunes library on an external drive. Just copy the entire iTunes folder from <User's Music> out to it. You can access the library from any computer running the same build of iTunes by holding down shift as you start iTunes and browsing to \iTunes\iTunes Library.itl
What you can't do is have a self-contained portable version of the iTunes application that isn't "installed" on the machine you want to use it on, so unless there is a spare port on a hub or switch that you can get permission to connect your own laptop to I don't see how you're going to get that update.
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Is there a way to access my iTunes Library, which is stored on a (PC) External Hard Drive, on a MacBook Air (through an Apricorn Universal Hard Drive Adapter), without transferring the music files off of the external hard drive?

Is there a way to access my iTunes Library, which is stored on a (PC) External Hard Drive, on a MacBook Air (through an Apricorn Universal Hard Drive Adapter), without transferring the music files off of the external hard drive?
In other words, because the MacBook Air only has 120 gbs of hard drive space & my old hard drive, from a Lenovo, has 500 gbs of hard drive space (and I have over 120 gbs of music), I’m looking to manage my iTunes music from the external hard drive permanently. Upon attempting to access the iTunes library held on the external hard drive the following message comes up: “The iTunes Library.itl file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file”. Is there a way to get around this?
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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
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

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Hello, I've recently purchased a Macbook and an external hard drive. I transferred all my files from my old Mac onto my external and would like to try to run my itunes library from there through my new laptop as opposed to putting all the files onto the new computer.
Is it possible to have the files exclusively running off the hard drive and never going onto the new macbook? How might I go about doing this?
I've tried following some of the video tutorials but that just seems to route you to do it from your old computer off of a external hard drive, and nothing to do with using it on a new computer.
Basically what I want to do is get everything running off the external (all the old computer's data) and none of it ever to set foot on my new Macbook.
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When you move the external drive to another computer, use the same start up instructions above to point your iTunes on that computer to the library on the external drive.
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Back up your iTunes library by copying to an external hard drive
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307074
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HT1751 I am trying to backup my iTunes library onto an external hard drive but it won't complete due to 'insufficient privileges for some of the items'. Am I doing something wrong and is there a solution to this problem?

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I am currently trying to backup my iTunes library onto an external hard drive so that I can copy it onto my new Macbook Pro. I have been following the steps posted on the Apple website however each time I get a dialogue box stating:
'The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items'.
Is this because I have items that were bought under another persons iTunes account? If so, is there a solution to this problem? Or am I doing something completely wrong?
Thanks in advance,
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