Long story short: iTunes didn't copy all of my music when I tried to move my media folder. Why?
So I went through all the steps as laid out in this guide from Apple Support (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1449) and it took a number of hours of sitting and waiting.
However, I was skeptical to just trust that iTunes had indeed copied all of my songs (I have a bad history with this), so I was going to run Carbon Copy Cloner from the old to new folder in case it needed to copy any extra items. However, when I went to run CCC, it looked as thought it was going to start the copying process from the beginning - iTunes hadn't simply copied everything over perfectly.
In looking at the folders side by side, the copied iTunes Music folder has 6,802 artist folders while the original has 7,184. I can even see a few of the folders at the top that are not copied over.
The difference in size is nearly 30GB in all (721 to 692) and there's no way that can be chalked up to my podcasts being separated. I don't have any video files at all.
I tried doing it first by cloning to the new drive, but then even when I set iTunes media folder location to the new location, every time it gave the "cannot find file, would you like to find it?" box.
Can anyone help me out here?
So I went through all the steps as laid out in this guide from Apple Support (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1449) and it took a number of hours of sitting and waiting.
However, I was skeptical to just trust that iTunes had indeed copied all of my songs (I have a bad history with this), so I was going to run Carbon Copy Cloner from the old to new folder in case it needed to copy any extra items. However, when I went to run CCC, it looked as thought it was going to start the copying process from the beginning - iTunes hadn't simply copied everything over perfectly.
In looking at the folders side by side, the copied iTunes Music folder has 6,802 artist folders while the original has 7,184. I can even see a few of the folders at the top that are not copied over.
The difference in size is nearly 30GB in all (721 to 692) and there's no way that can be chalked up to my podcasts being separated. I don't have any video files at all.
I tried doing it first by cloning to the new drive, but then even when I set iTunes media folder location to the new location, every time it gave the "cannot find file, would you like to find it?" box.
Can anyone help me out here?
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