iTunes Music Transfer

I am trying to transfer my itunes music to a 500 gb external hard drive from my ibook (G4 1.2 ghz / 1.25 ram / 80 gb hd) by a USB connection. I created a folder on the external called My music. I opened itunes and i open the external and try to drag and drop the itues music over....... nothing happens. what am i doing wrong???????????????????????????????

You need to move the music from in Finder, you can't drag the media out of itunes onto an external. Locate your itunes folder in finder and move that folder.

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hope these helps!

i will give these a try and keep u posted, thanks..............

Bertmac said:

i will give these a try and keep u posted, thanks..............

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hello Mr. Strectch

Maybe I am just a bozo, but i opened "Finder" but now am a little lost. I see a screen that sows things like " Desktop, documents, libary, etc. but nothing for itunes. Except when I go into Applicatios and i see itunes, if i open itunes i am where i started unable to copy itumes music to my external drive. I am a little lost after that, sorry. The answer is probably right in front of me....help ???

To the other guy .... are u sure the "Ehow" directions arent for PC's

Bertmac said:

hello Mr. Strectch

Maybe I am just a bozo, but i opened "Finder" but now am a little lost. I see a screen that sows things like " Desktop, documents, libary, etc. but nothing for itunes. Except when I go into Applicatios and i see itunes, if i open itunes i am where i started unable to copy itumes music to my external drive. I am a little lost after that, sorry. The answer is probably right in front of me....help ???

To the other guy .... are u sure the "Ehow" directions arent for PC's

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Hey...i think i just figured it out......but now when i try to drag and drop i get a message that reads "External hard drive can not be modified"......now what ?????????!

FYI - The external HD was formatted as NTFS. I formatted it as Mac OS journaled and that seemed to help. Does NTFS not work with Mac???????

Bertmac said:

FYI - The external HD was formatted as NTFS. I formatted it as Mac OS journaled and that seemed to help. Does NTFS not work with Mac???????

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It can read it, it can't write to it natively.

Bertmac said:

FYI - The external HD was formatted as NTFS. I formatted it as Mac OS journaled and that seemed to help. Does NTFS not work with Mac???????

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Dysfunction said:

It can read it, it can't write to it natively.

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As Dysfunction stated. NTFS file format can work go a mac. It can only read though.

If you want to use an external hard drive for both windows and mac without thinking of a file format. you can reformat it to FAT32. But the problem with this file system is that it has a limit of a 4GB single size file. Meaning you can't transfer more than 4GB file to your HDD.

Also there's no need to reformat a NTFS external hard disk so that you can use it on a mac.

You can download NTFS for MAC or NTFS3G so you can use your hard disk both with a mac or windows pc

Interesting. That's a useful bit of information