Migrating entire iTunes account from PC to Mac??

[dealmaker]

After my latest PC motherboard failure (second one in a year) - I have decided to move to all MAc in my household.

I have ordered a new iMac and I have been able to retrieve the data from my hard drive onto a free-standing USB hard drive unit.

So my entire iTunes account and music sits in one file on the drive - as a sub folder of the old Windows "My Music" folder.

So how do I migrate the entire iTunes account - including libraries, apps, music, media and old backups etc onto the Mac?

I see that on a mac in "Finder" the itunes folder sits on "places"/"username"/"Music"/iTunes

if I delete that iTunes folder and replace it with a copy and paste of the one off my hard drive from my old PC - will that do the trick?

If not how do I migrate everything (and not just my music)?

Thanks!

 

[spinnerlys]

Move an iTunes library from a Windows PC to a Mac

Apple - Migrate your files

Btw, "Places" is not an actual folder. You have your own user account, which has its own Home Directory, that directory is located in Macintosh HD / Users / .
"Places" is just a section of Finder's Sidebar, where you can put aliases to files and folders, to have faster access to them.

Also have a look at the following links to learn more about Mac OS X:

Mac OS X Basics

Helpful Information for Any Mac User by GGJstudios

"How to maximise your MacRumors troubleshooting experience" created by mad jew in 2006

MRoogle is a good tool to search these fora for already existing threads about questions you have. It might be able to answer you quicker than waiting for an answer.

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[Muttley1900]

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@spinnerlys - Thanks for that as I'm just doing the same (moving from pc to my first Mac) and wanted to get iTunes right.

J.

 

[Mik3F]

I used the top link in the second post and had no trouble. Just make sure you update itunes to the latest version first or else your library won't be read.

 

[eRondeau]

What's a motherboard?