Hello Tim... First off, thank you for all your assistance over the years in this forum! Question: Instead of step 3, couldn't you just drop everything onto the "Automatically Add to Itunes" folder? Wouldn't that take care of everything (except for maybe step 4 which should probably be done before step 3)? Or, am I missing something here? I am interested in this because I can see this being a To Do" item for me in 2013. Thanks for your sage advice! Lou (Blind Mac Man).
On Sunday, December 9, 2012 9:49:10 AM UTC-8, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > Four drives not including the internal one on my iMac. > > You should create the Library first then move the media into the new > iTunes Library location. > > 1. Hold down the Option key while starting iTunes. This will force > iTunes to bring up a Library chooser dialog. > 2. Select "Create New Library" and tell iTunes to place the new Library > on your external HD. This will create an iTunes folder on the external > with all the necessary folder locations and database files. > 3. Move your media into the iTunes Media folder that was created from > step #2. > 4. In iTunes, press cmd-comma to bring up the iTunes Preferences. In the > Advanced pane, make sure that both the Keep iTunes Media folder organized > and Copy items to the iTunes Media folder items are checked. > 5. In iTunes, press cmd-o to Add files. > 6. In the dialog, navigate to the iTunes Media folder within the iTunes > folder on the external HD then press return. > > iTunes will get busy re-organizing all your media into appropriate folders > and will add all tags into it's Database. this could take a while since > you have such a large collection of media. Just be patient and let it do > its thing. You may need to fix a few things after iTunes has completed its > task depending on how well and accurate your media was tagged. Overall, > it's not a difficult thing, just may take some time. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2012-12-08, at 7:27 PM, Kliphton <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > Wow, 10TB? How many drives was that? I want to go about this the second > way, I just want to make sure I put the media there properly. So do I move > the library and then drop the media in there? Or do I just delete the > directory, redirect the source, and let iTunes do the rest? Thanks for > your informative answer. My main point for doing this is so my iTunes > library is ready when my apple TV arrives. This is the only device missing > from my Apple collection. > > *From:* [email protected] <javascript:> > [mailto:macvisionaries@<javascript:> > googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Tim Kilburn > *Sent:* Saturday, December 08, 2012 7:40 PM > *To:* [email protected] <javascript:> > *Subject:* Re: iTunes Library location? > > Hi, > > There's two ways of approaching this. > > First is to leave the media where it is and let iTunes simply mark where > everything is in its Library Database file. In theory, this could be > accomplished by first going to iTunes Prefs in the Advanced pane and > unchecking the box that tells iTunes to Copy items to the iTunes Media > folder. Next, you would go under the File menu and choose "Add to Library" > (cmd-o), navigate to the external HD where all your media is, then pressing > the Open button on the parent directory of all the media on that drive. > The only issue with this method is that I seem to recall that iTunes does > not always pay attention to that preference when your importing from > external HDs. If it works as this plan suggests though, you'd have > everything accessible to iTunes and all your devices with only the Database > file residing on the Mac's internal HD. > > In the second option, you'll need to create either a new iTunes Library on > that external HD or move your existing iTunes folder over to that external > HD. In this case, when you add the media to iTunes, it will copy > everything into the iTunes folder and place them all into the proper > locations that iTunes needs in order to work properly and properly share > with the Apple TV and other iDevices. This is the method that I use > myself. The only problem could be that iTunes will try to copy all your > media into the new iTunes media location. If you have enough space on your > external HD to handle multiple copies of the media during this Library > creation process, then you'll be OK. If you do not, you will need to be > creative with where you put media prior to this process so that only one > copy of the files are on your external HD. I did this myself by making > sure that the drive was first empty then created an iTunes Library folder > onto it. I then spent time placing portions of my media on other drives, > essentially dividing it up prior to iTunes building the Library. Then when > I added the media to iTunes, it copied items to the new iTunes Library > location and placed everything where iTunes needed it to be. I did have > the advantage of having 10 TB of HD space to play with so moving things > around was possible. > > Hope that this sort of makes sense, it does to me but I'm the writer so > that's expected. Good luck. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2012-12-08, at 3:37 PM, Kliphton <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > Okay. I have over 3TB of media. Of course I don’t have that much space > on my mac. But how do I tell iTunes to point to this location so it will > play this media from my apple TV and when I want to add stuff to my iPhone, > iPad, or iPod? I looked at the iTunes folder, and I see that it has a > media folder. Do I move this folder to the drive destination, and then put > the media in here separated by music and videos? 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