External HD with Music, How Do I Set Up iTunes to Read from External?

[Eiffel27]

My hard drive was filling up, so I decided to try and move my music over onto my external. I thought I could do it without reading any guides and I ended up in a royal mess. I now have the folder Music/iTunes/(Album Artwork, iTunes Library, etc) copied over onto my external.

I have completely uninstalled iTunes from my computer, and my internal hard drive has the user/music folder clear.

What is the easiest way to have my iTunes reading my music from my external? I would like to keep playlists and playcounts if possible.

I am on a computer with Mac OSX 10.5.8.

Thankyou very much!

 

[iBookG4user]

iTunes Preferences>Advanced>iTunes Media Folder Location

 

[MacOCD]

Or hold alt/option when you click on your iTunes application. It will ask you to choose a folder.

 

[Xavier]

Or hold alt/option when you click on your iTunes application. It will ask you to choose a folder.

bingo! I have an internal library for music, and an external library for videos.

 

[franko v]

Use this link as a guide...

http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to-a-new-hard-drive/

Just make sure you have only one iTunes Library file - I had two and when you click the wrong one you may not see all your music and media.

It took me a couple of days to finally get it to work - hopefully it'll only take you a couple of hours!


Much success!

 

[MacOCD]

bingo! I have an internal library for music, and an external library for videos.

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