Clean OSX install iTunes
Have mid 2011, 27 inch iMac with a 1TB internal HD (not a fusion) running Mavericks. HD was getting full and needing maintenance (some verify & repair work). Due to extreme complexity of upgrading internal drive in the iMac (per OWC), I bought a 256 GB external thunderbolt SSD and did a clean install of El Capitan onto it. I am reinstalling and upgrading apps. It's booting & running great.
iTunes was installed onto the SSD as part of new OSX build. I backed up Mavericks iTunes media to an external HD for safety and have a bootable clone of the HD with the iTunes files on it as well. The computer now boots from the external SSD and boots much faster than it does under Mavericks (I also added 16 GB of RAM along the way).
I want to keep the iTunes music media on the current internal HD (its about 120GB of music) but I'm unsure how to get the El Capitan installed iTunes running now on the SSD to see and use the media files still on the internal HD. I also want to port all my playlists from the Mavericks based internal HD iTunes to the El Capitan external SSD based iTunes.
Any advice how to proceed?
Have mid 2011, 27 inch iMac with a 1TB internal HD (not a fusion) running Mavericks. HD was getting full and needing maintenance (some verify & repair work). Due to extreme complexity of upgrading internal drive in the iMac (per OWC), I bought a 256 GB external thunderbolt SSD and did a clean install of El Capitan onto it. I am reinstalling and upgrading apps. It's booting & running great.
iTunes was installed onto the SSD as part of new OSX build. I backed up Mavericks iTunes media to an external HD for safety and have a bootable clone of the HD with the iTunes files on it as well. The computer now boots from the external SSD and boots much faster than it does under Mavericks (I also added 16 GB of RAM along the way).
I want to keep the iTunes music media on the current internal HD (its about 120GB of music) but I'm unsure how to get the El Capitan installed iTunes running now on the SSD to see and use the media files still on the internal HD. I also want to port all my playlists from the Mavericks based internal HD iTunes to the El Capitan external SSD based iTunes.
Any advice how to proceed?