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Transferring music library between two Macs
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<blockquote data-quote="scottajronan" data-source="post: 1838994" data-attributes="member: 403728"><p>Okay here's the details;</p><p>The first computer (the source) is a MacBook Pro 15" 2.2ghz quad core intel i7 running the latest version of Catalina (10.15.2) with 68,143 songs (471.10gb) stored in \macintosh hd\users\scott\music\itunes\itunes\music. The keep music media folder organised tick box is ticked and Copy files to music media folder when adding to library tick box is also ticked.</p><p></p><p>The second computer (the destination) is Mac mini later 2014 3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7 late 2014 running the latest beta of Catalina 10.15.3 Beta (19D49f) the music is store on an external Thunderbolt drive \media\music\music. After attempted to copy form the first the second is showing 66,219 (453/78gb) The keep music media folder organised tick box is ticked and Copy files to music media folder when adding to library tick box is also ticked.</p><p></p><p>After copying both the media, Music folders and the iTunes folder from the first computer none of the playlists from the first are showing and there is a discrepancy of apps 2,000 songs. Most of these songs are ripped form CDs and or vinyl wth about a 1,000 purchased form the iTunes store. Both computers are using the same Apple ID.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scottajronan, post: 1838994, member: 403728"] Okay here's the details; The first computer (the source) is a MacBook Pro 15" 2.2ghz quad core intel i7 running the latest version of Catalina (10.15.2) with 68,143 songs (471.10gb) stored in \macintosh hd\users\scott\music\itunes\itunes\music. The keep music media folder organised tick box is ticked and Copy files to music media folder when adding to library tick box is also ticked. The second computer (the destination) is Mac mini later 2014 3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7 late 2014 running the latest beta of Catalina 10.15.3 Beta (19D49f) the music is store on an external Thunderbolt drive \media\music\music. After attempted to copy form the first the second is showing 66,219 (453/78gb) The keep music media folder organised tick box is ticked and Copy files to music media folder when adding to library tick box is also ticked. After copying both the media, Music folders and the iTunes folder from the first computer none of the playlists from the first are showing and there is a discrepancy of apps 2,000 songs. Most of these songs are ripped form CDs and or vinyl wth about a 1,000 purchased form the iTunes store. Both computers are using the same Apple ID. [/QUOTE]
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