Itunes Library

My computer blew a power supply but I have all my music on an external. I have a laptop with its own library. I connected the external to the laptop and redirected Itunes to the external drive but after a reboot I started Itunes and the library didn't have the music that was on the external. I check preferences again and it was pointed to the external. How can I play that library?

altyson said:

My computer blew a power supply but I have all my music on an external. I have a laptop with its own library. I connected the external to the laptop and redirected Itunes to the external drive but after a reboot I started Itunes and the library didn't have the music that was on the external. I check preferences again and it was pointed to the external. How can I play that library?

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Drag the external library on to a blank iTunes window. If you don't go to iTunes preference and select that the actual files don't get copied (PREFERENCES>ADVANCED> 'deselect' "COPY TO ITUNES LIBRARY WHEN ADDING FILES TO ITUNES") then you wont copy all the files into that computers iTunes library, rather the directory of where the files live.

Maybe there's a better way, but it works for me..

Rimmer