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I have done this many time with Windows computers. I have all my media on a separate HDD so that I can move it between computers. I just copy my iTunes directory from my Profile (with the library files) to the HDD when mounting it on a different PC, then copy the backed-up libraries from the HDD to the iTunes directory in the Profile of the new machine. It has worked flawlessly for years.
I tried the same thing on my new MBP and while it reads the library and has all the playlists and other settings correct, it will not find the files. I looked with a text editor at the iTunes Library.itl and iTunes Library.xml and they are pointing to the local profile iTunes directory instead of the directory on the external HDD.
Without doing a lot of find/replace via text editor, how can this be fixed?
I tried the same thing on my new MBP and while it reads the library and has all the playlists and other settings correct, it will not find the files. I looked with a text editor at the iTunes Library.itl and iTunes Library.xml and they are pointing to the local profile iTunes directory instead of the directory on the external HDD.
Without doing a lot of find/replace via text editor, how can this be fixed?