So I moved my iTunes library to an external HDD using the Apple KB article just fine. Then I created a symlink from /Users/myuser/Music/iTunes to /Volumes/external/Music/iTunes and that worked just fine as well. Then I erased that system completely and clean installed OS X Lion. I recreated the symlink on the new install and fired up the latest version of iTunes 10.4 (80).
Now some of the songs cannot be located. If you use get info in iTunes the files that work all have the path like /Volumes/external/Music/iTunes/.....
The files that cannot be found use a path like
file://localhost/Volumes/external/Music/iTunes/....
Oddly enough the library xml files uses paths that all have the file:// convention, but I know iTunes doesn't actually use this file directly.
How can I (easily) fix this?
Now some of the songs cannot be located. If you use get info in iTunes the files that work all have the path like /Volumes/external/Music/iTunes/.....
The files that cannot be found use a path like
file://localhost/Volumes/external/Music/iTunes/....
Oddly enough the library xml files uses paths that all have the file:// convention, but I know iTunes doesn't actually use this file directly.
How can I (easily) fix this?