Re: How can I point iTunes to a new disk?
On Mar 3, 2009, at 9:14 AM, Tommy wrote: > > On Mar 2, 5:56 pm, Kris Tilford wrote: >> On Mar 2, 2009, at 6:48 PM, yawg wrote: >> > You can move ALL the >> iTunes Music folder on the smaller System HD to the trash (don't >> empty >> unless you're certain the copy on the external HD is complete), > > Retain a back up copy of your music on another disk, I recently had an > total failure of a disk. If I didn't have a copy of my music on > another computer, at another location all would've been lost. I run > my iTunes library off an external HD, back that up on another external > HD, copy new songs and movies to a thumb drive & take those to the > other computer, which, of course, is all backed up on yet another > external HD. Does this make me compulsive? Paranoid? No!! But it DOES make you a bit safer!! Chuck D. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: How can I point iTunes to a new disk?
On Mar 2, 5:56 pm, Kris Tilford wrote: > On Mar 2, 2009, at 6:48 PM, yawg wrote: > You can move ALL the > iTunes Music folder on the smaller System HD to the trash (don't empty > unless you're certain the copy on the external HD is complete), Retain a back up copy of your music on another disk, I recently had an total failure of a disk. If I didn't have a copy of my music on another computer, at another location all would've been lost. I run my iTunes library off an external HD, back that up on another external HD, copy new songs and movies to a thumb drive & take those to the other computer, which, of course, is all backed up on yet another external HD. Does this make me compulsive? Paranoid? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: How can I point iTunes to a new disk?
On Mar 2, 2009, at 6:48 PM, yawg wrote: > I don't have a new library location, as my new big disk is only > storage as my old smaller disk was. I just want to point iTunes to the > new disk where all my music is now. It's an identical copy of all the > music on my original smaller disk. I hate to bloat my system disk with > all those files. I just sent a LONG reply assuming your new 1 TB HD WAS your new System disk, but it appears not. If the 1 TB is external, and you've got copies on both the smaller System HD and the new 1 TB external, the solution is "similar" to my long explanation. You can move ALL the iTunes Music folder on the smaller System HD to the trash (don't empty unless you're certain the copy on the external HD is complete), and then open iTunes and go to the Preferences>Advanced tab and use the "Change..." button to change the iTunes Music folder location. The new location should be the exact path to the "iTunes" folder on the new 1 TB HD. Again, if this folder has a file called "iTunes Library" you can trash it. Then drag & drop the entire "iTunes Music" folder which contains copies of all your album and tunes into either the open iTunes window or the iTunes icon and it will reindex everything, but this time it will recognize the new pathway to the new HD and not clog your small System HD with all these tunes. Good luck! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: How can I point iTunes to a new disk?
On Mar 2, 2009, at 3:31 PM, yawg wrote: > Now every time I want to play a playlist in iTunes I have to tell > iTunes where to find every single tune. Assuming you're using the default mode where in the Preferences>Advanced window the "Keep iTunes Music Folder Organized" is checked, then the easy solution is to go to your iTunes Music folder (the default location is: ~/Users/~user/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music. Within the iTunes folder there should be several files and folders. The important ones are Album Artwork and iTunes Music; don't mess with these manually unless you have to. You can safely dump the old files called "iTunes Library" or the Folder called "Previous iTunes Libraries"; these are the data bases that are screwed up and telling you to "find" each tune you already have. The problem is that each tune in the database has an "exact" pathway to the tune, and when you copied the files the path has changed somehow so that the path in the "iTunes Library" file doesn't match the new HD. To solve this, simply drag & drop the entire "iTunes Music" folder into either an open iTunes window or onto the iTunes icon in the dock. If you moved the old "iTunes Library" file to the trash beforehand, then when iTunes launches the library will be totally empty of tunes, but it will automatically regenerate the entire library pathways and populate the library without copying or moving anything (as long as you were using the "Keep iTunes Music Folder Organized" option). If you were NOT using the "Keep iTunes Music Folder Organized" then your music is located in "custom" locations wherever it happened to be when iTunes first played it, and if you moved it, it's officially "lost" to iTunes and you'd need to manually relocate it. When the "Keep iTunes Music Folder Organized" is used iTunes does "copy" the original files into the "iTunes Music" folder in separate folders for each artist unless the album is a "compilation" (meaning more than one artist for the album), in which case they are placed in the "Compilation Albums" folder and organized by album name instead of artist. Songs without artists are placed into the "Unknown Artist" folder, and the term "Unknown Album" is used for albums without names. It will take a while to reindex your entire iTunes Library. I recently reindexed a Library of 120+GB and it took over an hour, perhaps even two? Was letter perfect when done, but it must do several passes, one to index the path, one to index the art, one to establish playback volume and gapless playback. When done it should be perfect, but you can use the iTune>File>Show Duplicates to see if anything was duplicated (which can happen if you don't move the old "iTunes Library" file to the Trash first, although this isn't strictly necessary, but in my opinion you're asking for trouble when updating an already "known bad" library file. Good luck! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: How can I point iTunes to a new disk?
Hi, I don't have a new library location, as my new big disk is only storage as my old smaller disk was. I just want to point iTunes to the new disk where all my music is now. It's an identical copy of all the music on my original smaller disk. I hate to bloat my system disk with all those files. I followed your instructions and iTunes reworked the whole shebang but I'm still stuck and have to point iTunes to every new track location. What a PITA ... Regards, Jörg. On Mar 3, 1:12 am, glen wrote: > - Original Message > > From: yawg > > My disk space got claustrophobic so I installed a new 1 TB disk, > > copied all the files from the old small one to the new one and removed > > the old one. > > > Now every time I want to play a playlist in iTunes I have to tell > > iTunes where to find every single tune. Duh ... > > > Is there a possibility to show iTunes the whole new disk so it won't > > ask me every time to locate the song? I tried to select a whole bunch > > of tracks at the same time but then I don't get the option "show in > > Finder". > > > This is so tedious. There must be an easy way out ... > > > Also I noted that it isn't possible anymore to assign cover art to a > > selection of tracks when the playlist is quite long. Is there a > > maximum of tracks to a certain playlist? > > > The more I use iTunes the more it seems to suck. > > > O yeah, using iTunes ver. 7.7 (43), this seems to be the ultimate > > version for Panther. > > In iTunes 7.7 (43) go to iTunes Menu>perferences>advanced, then click > "change" and navigate to the new library location. You probably want to > uncheck the box that says copy files to iTumes Music folder when adding to > library if the drive iTunes is located is small. Be sure the music files are > backup somewhere else. If you large drive fails so goes the music. > > Then under the File menu>Add to lLbrary (cmd O). Delete anything listed in > the Music library first or will end up with doubles. --glen --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: How can I point iTunes to a new disk?
- Original Message > From: yawg > My disk space got claustrophobic so I installed a new 1 TB disk, > copied all the files from the old small one to the new one and removed > the old one. > > Now every time I want to play a playlist in iTunes I have to tell > iTunes where to find every single tune. Duh ... > > Is there a possibility to show iTunes the whole new disk so it won't > ask me every time to locate the song? I tried to select a whole bunch > of tracks at the same time but then I don't get the option "show in > Finder". > > This is so tedious. There must be an easy way out ... > > Also I noted that it isn't possible anymore to assign cover art to a > selection of tracks when the playlist is quite long. Is there a > maximum of tracks to a certain playlist? > > The more I use iTunes the more it seems to suck. > > O yeah, using iTunes ver. 7.7 (43), this seems to be the ultimate > version for Panther. > In iTunes 7.7 (43) go to iTunes Menu>perferences>advanced, then click "change" and navigate to the new library location. You probably want to uncheck the box that says copy files to iTumes Music folder when adding to library if the drive iTunes is located is small. Be sure the music files are backup somewhere else. If you large drive fails so goes the music. Then under the File menu>Add to lLbrary (cmd O). Delete anything listed in the Music library first or will end up with doubles. --glen --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: How can I point iTunes to a new disk?
I have my iTunes songs on an external Firewire hard drive. When I changed my primary computer from a G3 iMac to a G4 I had bought on eBay, I had to change the song storage path in iTunes preferences and then do a CMD-O. It took a while, but eventually the iTunes on my G4 knew the location of my songs. --- On Mon, 3/2/09, Eric Volker wrote: From: Eric Volker Subject: Re: How can I point iTunes to a new disk? To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Monday, March 2, 2009, 5:55 PM On Mar 2, 2009, at 3:31 PM, yawg wrote: > > Is there a possibility to show iTunes the whole new disk so it won't > ask me every time to locate the song? I tried to select a whole bunch > of tracks at the same time but then I don't get the option "show in > Finder". I'm not sure about version 7.7, but in version 8.x you can go to iTunes>Preferences>Advanced and change the default location of your iTunes library. Once you point it at the new location, iTunes should be able to find your music again. If not, you may have to add the new location with CMD-O. Eric --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: How can I point iTunes to a new disk?
On Mar 2, 2009, at 3:31 PM, yawg wrote: > > Is there a possibility to show iTunes the whole new disk so it won't > ask me every time to locate the song? I tried to select a whole bunch > of tracks at the same time but then I don't get the option "show in > Finder". I'm not sure about version 7.7, but in version 8.x you can go to iTunes>Preferences>Advanced and change the default location of your iTunes library. Once you point it at the new location, iTunes should be able to find your music again. If not, you may have to add the new location with CMD-O. Eric --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
How can I point iTunes to a new disk?
Hi, My disk space got claustrophobic so I installed a new 1 TB disk, copied all the files from the old small one to the new one and removed the old one. Now every time I want to play a playlist in iTunes I have to tell iTunes where to find every single tune. Duh ... Is there a possibility to show iTunes the whole new disk so it won't ask me every time to locate the song? I tried to select a whole bunch of tracks at the same time but then I don't get the option "show in Finder". This is so tedious. There must be an easy way out ... Also I noted that it isn't possible anymore to assign cover art to a selection of tracks when the playlist is quite long. Is there a maximum of tracks to a certain playlist? The more I use iTunes the more it seems to suck. O yeah, using iTunes ver. 7.7 (43), this seems to be the ultimate version for Panther. TIA for your suggestions. Regards, Jörg. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
