Yes, another post on this topic: Sorry if this is a dupe, I promise I searched the forums. Normally, I'm a whiz at moving and recovering iTunes library and dealing with the "exclamation point of death" issues.
I have three separate iTunes libraries. Two are very large, kept on an external drive. The third is kept on my MBP internal drive--I used it exclusively for my 16G iPhone, so never anticipated needing so much disk space that I needed to worry about it. I never even had any songs on the damn things (that's what an iPod is for!)--just a video or two and lots of apps.
Enter my 64GB iPad. It seemed obvious to share the libraries for the two devices, as many of the apps run on both devices. But with the enormous capacity of the iPad (and my using it quite often for video files), the imposition on the internal drive is too great.
I've tried several different methods to copy the library over (the how-to on Lifehacker, the suggested method on the Apple site, use of a Mac app called PowerTunes)--but none of them seem to work (or they do seem to work, but I can never be sure that everything has copied--the destination library never appears to be as large as the source--and I have a huge amount of books, both iBook and Kindle, and an even larger amount of comic books from the various Comixology apps)--and I dread "cutting the cord" by syncing with the new library and then finding that a large chunk of my apps/books/comics are gone.
I know this is all because it is the mission statement of iTunes to make migration of libraries as difficult as possible--but this is too much for me. Is there any kind of walkthrough video or other tutorial on how to do this? Like I said, for music this stuff is easy--the apps and other non-music material make this a maddening task.
TIA
I have three separate iTunes libraries. Two are very large, kept on an external drive. The third is kept on my MBP internal drive--I used it exclusively for my 16G iPhone, so never anticipated needing so much disk space that I needed to worry about it. I never even had any songs on the damn things (that's what an iPod is for!)--just a video or two and lots of apps.
Enter my 64GB iPad. It seemed obvious to share the libraries for the two devices, as many of the apps run on both devices. But with the enormous capacity of the iPad (and my using it quite often for video files), the imposition on the internal drive is too great.
I've tried several different methods to copy the library over (the how-to on Lifehacker, the suggested method on the Apple site, use of a Mac app called PowerTunes)--but none of them seem to work (or they do seem to work, but I can never be sure that everything has copied--the destination library never appears to be as large as the source--and I have a huge amount of books, both iBook and Kindle, and an even larger amount of comic books from the various Comixology apps)--and I dread "cutting the cord" by syncing with the new library and then finding that a large chunk of my apps/books/comics are gone.
I know this is all because it is the mission statement of iTunes to make migration of libraries as difficult as possible--but this is too much for me. Is there any kind of walkthrough video or other tutorial on how to do this? Like I said, for music this stuff is easy--the apps and other non-music material make this a maddening task.
TIA
