Moving all My iTunes Music Intact

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I am getting an iBook! :D

So of course I need to move all of my music over from my old iMac. I know that I'll need to move My Music over. That's easy. But I also want to retain my Playlists etc....

are there any canned instructions out there on this topic?

L :eek:
 
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You could move your whole music collection over and the library file, if the User folder has the same name on both machines it should work fine

Or try migration assistant in Utilities
 
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louishen said:
You could move your whole music collection over and the library file, if the User folder has the same name on both machines it should work fine

Or try migration assistant in Utilities
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Thanks for the response 'louishen'> Can you tell me where I can fund the Library file?

I'll find if this works soon enough as FedEx is saying delivery by noon tomorrow.

Oh Happy Days!

:Evil:/ :D
 
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There is a truly simple way. Simply copy your ENTIRE iTunes folder hierarchy onto an external hard disk. Connect this disk to your new machine, and copy the ENTIRE thing over to the new machine, REPLACING the existing iTunes hierarchy with the one from the hard drive. You get your music, your playlists, everything. I just did this myself to transfer my iTunes library over to my new MBP. Worked like a charm.
 
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iTunes Library Move

mac57 said:
There is a truly simple way. Simply copy your ENTIRE iTunes folder hierarchy onto an external hard disk. Connect this disk to your new machine, and copy the ENTIRE thing over to the new machine, REPLACING the existing iTunes hierarchy with the one from the hard drive. You get your music, your playlists, everything. I just did this myself to transfer my iTunes library over to my new MBP. Worked like a charm.
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This is a good idea. I'll probably do that very thing. But across my LAN.

Thanks for replying and the good advice!

;D
 

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