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<blockquote data-quote="IWT" data-source="post: 1707684" data-attributes="member: 83420"><p>@bcloonan</p><p></p><p>Well spotted. I thought you had done this because I noted a comment about consolidating your library in your post #3; but that may have been after you moved. You and the instructions are correct. Organising & Consolidating your library is a crucial first step. I keep mine that way all the time even though I don't need to copy my library. (As I mentioned in an earlier post, I Copy/Paste my entire iTunes Music/Media Folder to another EHD on a regular basis as an additional BU to my Time Machine and cloning software BUs and I use iTunes Match which stores a copy in the cloud).</p><p></p><p>Now to your new problem. There is a general rule that you need to keep a minimum of 15% of your HDD space free for the OS to work properly and, of course, your entire game plan was intended to remove 270GB (possibly more if you move your whole library).</p><p></p><p>So, it looks like, thanks to your research, that you now have a secure way of copying your iTunes library to an EHD, testing it, then deleting the original. To do that, the Mac needs more temporary storage space. Is there anything of reasonably large size that you could temporarily move to an EHD to free up space - move your iTunes stuff - then move back to the HDD?</p><p></p><p>And no need to apologise. I give my time because I want to. As do all the others on the Mac-Forums. I'm just sorry things have taken so long.</p><p></p><p>Ian</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IWT, post: 1707684, member: 83420"] @bcloonan Well spotted. I thought you had done this because I noted a comment about consolidating your library in your post #3; but that may have been after you moved. You and the instructions are correct. Organising & Consolidating your library is a crucial first step. I keep mine that way all the time even though I don't need to copy my library. (As I mentioned in an earlier post, I Copy/Paste my entire iTunes Music/Media Folder to another EHD on a regular basis as an additional BU to my Time Machine and cloning software BUs and I use iTunes Match which stores a copy in the cloud). Now to your new problem. There is a general rule that you need to keep a minimum of 15% of your HDD space free for the OS to work properly and, of course, your entire game plan was intended to remove 270GB (possibly more if you move your whole library). So, it looks like, thanks to your research, that you now have a secure way of copying your iTunes library to an EHD, testing it, then deleting the original. To do that, the Mac needs more temporary storage space. Is there anything of reasonably large size that you could temporarily move to an EHD to free up space - move your iTunes stuff - then move back to the HDD? And no need to apologise. I give my time because I want to. As do all the others on the Mac-Forums. I'm just sorry things have taken so long. Ian [/QUOTE]
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