Mac help...

[goldengrooves]

I am looking to run my iTunes library off of a portable hard drive to free up some much needed memory space and was wondering if I could get some directions on how to go about this. Thanks!

[Irie Guy]

Drag and Drop your library.

Go into your Music Folder and click on your iTunes Library and drag it over to your EXT HD. When its done copying open up iTunes while holding down the OPTION Key and a dialog box will come up asking you to Choose Library or Create a new one.

Choose the copied library on your EXT and voila you are done. Once you are sure everything is there you can delete the library off your internal.

[Corbin]

Not to be a dink, but I'm pretty sure the above advice is incorrect...I just switched mine over last week with that method and it didn't work at all (although I guess that it does work sometimes).

Here's the link with all the info you need...

http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to-a-new-hard-drive

[Irie Guy]

What didnt work Corbin?

I have been an exclusive Mac user for 9 years. Have moved my library many times as we have had 5 different machines over that time period and have evolved with iTunes with the version changes along the way.

Now I could have added a caveat that this was assuming that the OP has left the default settings for iTunes to copy content to the library when being added and has made sure to keep a consolidated library.

If you choose to simply use the iTunes database as a pointer to your media strewn about your computer then you are correct my previously posted method would possibly give you troubles.

Again I would be curious what went wrong for you.

Edited January 15, 2009 by Guest