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Moving iTunes library to new MacBook
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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1796676" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>The last part of my previous post may have been poorly worded. Assume that your music is on an esternal drive as you want it to be. If you don't have the external drive attached and you launch iTunes three things become true:</p><p>1. iTunes starts looking for content in its folder on your internal hard drive.</p><p>2. Any <strong>new content</strong> added to your iTunes library will be put in the iTunes folder on your internal drive. It does not try to add everything that was in the library AFAIK.</p><p>3. If you attempt to play something that is not on the internal drive iTunes warns you that the song is unavsilsble and asks whether you want to locate it. I do not remember with 100% certainty whether it attempts to download the file from the cloud.</p><p></p><p>Hopefully that helps sore things out for you. Trust me when I say I have messed up my library a few times so I feel your pain and understand why you want to avoid that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1796676, member: 131855"] The last part of my previous post may have been poorly worded. Assume that your music is on an esternal drive as you want it to be. If you don't have the external drive attached and you launch iTunes three things become true: 1. iTunes starts looking for content in its folder on your internal hard drive. 2. Any [B]new content[/B] added to your iTunes library will be put in the iTunes folder on your internal drive. It does not try to add everything that was in the library AFAIK. 3. If you attempt to play something that is not on the internal drive iTunes warns you that the song is unavsilsble and asks whether you want to locate it. I do not remember with 100% certainty whether it attempts to download the file from the cloud. Hopefully that helps sore things out for you. Trust me when I say I have messed up my library a few times so I feel your pain and understand why you want to avoid that. [/QUOTE]
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