Re: i-tunes to external harddrive

2009-09-19 Thread Andrew
Do you have Time Machine? I told Time Machine not to back up iTunes due to partition size on external hard drive. I copied the iTunes Music folder manually to a different partition. As far as I know it would do it and change/add when new backup is done. Andrew On 18/09/2009, at 10:48 PM,

Re: i-tunes to external harddrive

2009-09-19 Thread Ronda Brown
On 19/09/2009, at 2:01 PM, Andrew wrote: Do you have Time Machine? I told Time Machine not to back up iTunes due to partition size on external hard drive. I copied the iTunes Music folder manually to a different partition. As far as I know it would do it and change/add when new backup is

i-tunes to external harddrive

2009-09-18 Thread Martin Sulkowski
I want to backup my library to an external hard drive .It is appr.400 gb big and I want to keep the structure as in i-tunes.I have it sorted like ---Classical Music/ Artist/ Album.Is there any way of doing this,and keeping the structureI found the internet very confusing. Or is it better

Re: i-tunes to external harddrive

2009-09-18 Thread Philippe Chaperon
Hi Martin, Have you tried copying your whole music folder which is in your Users/your directory/Music/iTunes, and pasting it in your external drive. I believe you can point iTunes to this 'new' location so that it can play the songs from the external drive. What I do not know is how to sync the 2

Re: i-tunes to external harddrive

2009-09-18 Thread James Devenish
Hi Martin, Backup up your iTunes library is as simple as copying your 'iTunes' folder. For instance, you can open your 'Music' folder and drag-and-drop the 'iTunes' folder icon onto your external hard disk icon. Of course, this will take a very long time because you have 400 GB of music, and