how to drag 2500 songs from itunes to an external drive?

[geordiejohn]

hello i have got an apple minimac 80gb 10.6.2 with leopard and i have got about 2500 mp3 files on itunes and i want to drag them to a folder called music on my external hard drive,then i will transfer them to my windows 7 laptop but i can only seem to be able to drag about 300 tracks at a time,does anyone know how to drag all the files at the same time please?
thank you.

 

[cart16]

If your Itunes library is managed by itunes your music should be in "yourusername/music/itunes/itunesmusic". Drag the itunes music folder to the external drive.

 

[omeletpants]

If your Itunes library is managed by itunes your music should be in "yourusername/music/itunes/itunesmusic". Drag the itunes music folder to the external drive.

I just did this yesterday. When I dragged them it screwed up my iTunes files of those songs. When I copied and pasted them there was no problems

 

[geordiejohn]

i tried to do a copy but when i click on the external drive and do a right click there is no paste ?

 

[surflordca]

i tried to do a copy but when i click on the external drive and do a right click there is no paste ?

command v to paste...

 

[geordiejohn]

i have got a windows trust keyboard ?

 

[BigHungry04]

Hit the Windows key-V to paste.

 

[geordiejohn]

ok thank you.

 

[spinne1]

I just did this yesterday. When I dragged them it screwed up my iTunes files of those songs. When I copied and pasted them there was no problems

It should have had no negative effect to copy the files to an external drive. Perhaps you hit a key while dragging or deselected something or dragged to more than one place accidently. Anyhow, simply dragging and copying will have ZERO detrimental effect on iTunes.

 

[geordiejohn]

thank you everyone i found a program called TuneAid which took all the files from my ipod and copied them to a folder called music which i created on my desktop.