It makes a 100 % difference in moving your iTunes library to an external
drive whether you have a managed or unmanaged library. If you don't get
the difference in procedures just right... poof goes your playlist that
you may have been compiling for several years.
IT professional that I am, following all the many newsgroup tips that I
looked up, the playlists still went poof.
Then I clicked around a bunch and all of a sudden most of the playlist
mysteriously came back (except the recent additions). Don't know why...
iTunes was doing something on its own ... smart/ stupid beast that it
is. I spent a LOT of time and heartache on a procedure that should have
been 1,2,3 done.
I resent a lack of info / guidance for a procedure that most anyone who
really uses iTunes to any degree is absolutely going to need. Like a
bank taking your money deposits but not giving you any way to transfer
them reliably. "Gee ... they disappeared? You're upset?"
This migration issue ... like the recent iTunes Pre issue ... or Mac not
overtly labeling its successive equipment models ... is the same kind
of inconsiderate "bad business in the long run" BS that MS is famous for.
Making your customers hate you via incredible arrogance and and "I'm too
famous and rich to be anytthing but golden" disregard for their customers.
Can you tell I am upset?
:)
db
t.piwowar wrote:
On Jul 16, 2009, at 1:40 PM, db wrote:
Apple's migration assistant helps you migrate a overflowing iTunes
library to an external drive? To a Vista computer? To a widely
different version of OS X? Does it distinguish between managed and
unmanaged iTunes libraries?
I was responding to a more complicated situation. To move your iTunes
library to an external drive you change its location in iTunes
preferences. To import your iTunes library from an external drive you
just import the library into iTunes. As to doing it on a Vista
computer, you are rightly on your own -- that's a wholly different can
of worms (yuck!).
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