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Moving iTunes library to new MacBook
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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1796589" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>I wasn't really expecting there to be music in that folder since you have previously told iTunes to store your music on the external drive. Now that I have a little better idea of what I think is happening that helps. </p><p></p><p>If you open your user folder on the <strong>old </strong>Mac and go to yout user folder/Music/iTunes are there any library files there. Depending upon your version of iTunes there may be three or four. Those are the files to transfer to the same location on the new computer. Whe you are done make sure you go to iTunes>Preferences>and select the drive/folder that has your music</p><p></p><p> When you were using the <strong>o</strong><strong>ld Mac</strong> was iTunes behaving the way that you want it to? If so look at the iTunes Preferences>advanced settings and use the same settings on the new Mac. If it ewas not working the way you want let me know. That will determine what we do next. </p><p></p><p>Hang in there. We can do what you want. I've done it before but want to go forward carefully so we don't end up with the mess I did.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1796589, member: 131855"] I wasn't really expecting there to be music in that folder since you have previously told iTunes to store your music on the external drive. Now that I have a little better idea of what I think is happening that helps. If you open your user folder on the [B]old [/B]Mac and go to yout user folder/Music/iTunes are there any library files there. Depending upon your version of iTunes there may be three or four. Those are the files to transfer to the same location on the new computer. Whe you are done make sure you go to iTunes>Preferences>and select the drive/folder that has your music When you were using the [B]o[/B][B]ld Mac[/B] was iTunes behaving the way that you want it to? If so look at the iTunes Preferences>advanced settings and use the same settings on the new Mac. If it ewas not working the way you want let me know. That will determine what we do next. Hang in there. We can do what you want. I've done it before but want to go forward carefully so we don't end up with the mess I did. [/QUOTE]
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