Help with i-tunes & external hard drive

Oops - I probably should've mentioned that I'm using windows rather than a mac.

First, in <Preferences><Advanced Tab> you need to change the location to save the files to your external drive (probably something like e:/iTunes/iTunes Music)

Then open an explorer window, and drag the folders containing your music files into the iTunes window (to where it says library).

Hope this helps ... sorry doing it from memory for Windows so location of your music maybe slightly different.

Eloise

Thanks Eloise.

I'll try this when I get home. It's been getting frustrating as I've tried a few things, none of which worked, and I didn't want to have to start ripping the c8,000 tracks all over again ! !

you'll also need to make sure that your folder is shared on the network

Thanks for the replies. I will try these when I get home and hopefully all will be well !

Finders crossed.

Just another thought - try holding down <shift> as you double click the iTunes icon to start it. You'll be given the opportunity to create or open an iTunes Library - browse to your external disk and see if there is another Library on the external disk - this only works if the drive letter is the same as it was on your old computer.

Eloise

File, add Folder (Or Location). Done

Dear all

Thanks for the help. Tried this last night, and although it took several hours (my i-pod saw this as a new library, and it had to delete it's contents and reload all 8,000 tracks)it did work.

I can now rip the new cds I've bought, using a better/faster laptop.

Job done, so thanks again.

iTunes is so f-ing lame.... I am forced to use it due to having an iPhone, but I dread it every time.

I went through the painstaking effort of creating custom ringtones only to find that because they were deleted from my hard drive, they were deleted from my phone.

Come on!!! They are ring tones. I made them. They are mine.

Unfortunately a folder that contained them was deleted. When I hooked up my iPhone and was going to put some new music on it, iTunes demanded that I also sync my ringtones. Demanded. I didnt want to sync them so I un-checked "Sync Ringtones" then an error comes up and states if I dont sync, it will delete them from my iPhone.

So i try to sync.... And it cant find the ringtones on my PC, so it proceeds to delete them from my iPhone.

This is the most ridiculous things ever. How have they sold millions of iPods???

Oh the humanity!