Hi, the easiest thing to do in my opinion would be to go to your finder, press cmd-shift-h to open your Home Directory, open the Music folder and navigate to the iTunes folder. Copy the iTunes folder with cmd-c then navigate to your external HD, and paste it to there with cmd-v. Depending on the size of your iTunes Library, this may take a while. Once it has finished, start iTunes while holding down the Option key. This will force iTunes to ask you to choose a Library. Follow the prompts to choose another iTunes Library making sure to choose the iTunes folder on the external HD.
This process will make an exact copy of your Library, playlists, Preferences and all. If everything looks good, you can then remove the iTunes folder from the internal HD. The caveat here is that your external HD must be connected at all times that you wish to use iTunes with your Mac. As long as that is the case, it will work normally with Apple TV, Home Sharing and all iTunes features. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Feb 16, 2017, at 12:36, Ray Foret jr <[email protected]> wrote: Okay, Here’s the deal. I want to completely transfer all of my iTunes library from my Mac hard drive to an external 4TB Western Digital Mypassport drive. I went to the advanced tab under iTunes prefs and specified the location to which I wanted the transfer to happen. The path I specified is called Data Disk. The actual path I specified was Dada Disk/External Audio but that didn’t seem to do the trick. So, I manually made a folder inside the Data Disk/External Audio/Music folder called iTunes. Now, I retransfered the path to Data Disk/External Audio/Music/iTunes and thought that did it. But, when I went to stream content to my third gen Apple TV, all I got was a notice that said, “no content found in this library”. From this, I gather that for some reason, my third gen Apple TV was still looking at my Mac instead of the external drive. So, after all that, my questions. 1. What did I do incorrectly? 2. IF the way I did it was not correct, (I have to assume I made a mistake somewhere.) what should I have done? Thanks. Sent from my Mac, The Only computer with full accessibility for the blind built Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Comcast XFinity Voice Guidance, Mac, Verizon Wireless iPhone7+ and Apple TV user! -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries <https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
