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Moving iTunes library to new MacBook
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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1796586" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>OK. Lets go at this from a different angle. If I understand things correctly the actual music / song files are already located on an external hard drive. If that's true, try this:</p><p></p><p>1. On the old computer go into your user folder and open the Music/iTunes folder.</p><p>2. There are several files there that have the name iTunes library with different file extension. Copy those files you're going to move them to the new computer. If you like it's ok to copy them to the external drive.</p><p>3. Eject the rxternal drive and cconnect it to the new Mac.</p><p>4. Find those iTunes library files that you copied and move them to the Music/iTunes folder on the new Mac. Let them replace the ones you just created.</p><p></p><p>Lauch iTunes and see if things are working as expected. You may need to go into iTunes Preferenes and advanced tab to set your library locatopn. If things are not back to9 normal you may need to grab the other folders in the old iTunes folder but you should be able to skip the Music folder.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1796586, member: 131855"] OK. Lets go at this from a different angle. If I understand things correctly the actual music / song files are already located on an external hard drive. If that's true, try this: 1. On the old computer go into your user folder and open the Music/iTunes folder. 2. There are several files there that have the name iTunes library with different file extension. Copy those files you're going to move them to the new computer. If you like it's ok to copy them to the external drive. 3. Eject the rxternal drive and cconnect it to the new Mac. 4. Find those iTunes library files that you copied and move them to the Music/iTunes folder on the new Mac. Let them replace the ones you just created. Lauch iTunes and see if things are working as expected. You may need to go into iTunes Preferenes and advanced tab to set your library locatopn. If things are not back to9 normal you may need to grab the other folders in the old iTunes folder but you should be able to skip the Music folder. [/QUOTE]
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