Neal,
I'm a little concerned that you'll need to leave that USB flash drive attached to your computer or the next time iTunes tries to access something you copied from it, it won't be able to find the item. Maybe they've made it harder to shoot yourself in the foot when adding stuff from portable drives but I know with past versions of iTunes, I got into trouble by adding stuff to the library from a flash drive that didn't stay attached to my computer. I think Richard might have alluded to this in one of his posts to this thread when he mentioned something about having iTunes copy the files to your main hard drive's folders. I know when I set up my new computer in the next few weeks, I plan to duplicate my iTunes Media folder structure on my new computer and then let iTunes add everything from the main hard drive instead of from a flash drive. I'm curious if you remove your source flash drive and then go into the list of apps on iTunes, what happens. I think you said you mainly were copying apps from the flash drive. Alan Lemly -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Neal Ewers Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2015 11:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Report on transferring my library from a Windows 7 to Windows 10 computer Sieghard. Sorry for not being clear. Steps. Update iTunes in Windows 7 to the latest update. I happened to be using iTunes 32 on that computer not that it makes any difference in the library in the end. Make sure all purchases had been transferred to my iPhone and that everything was backed up. Copied the iTunes folder on my Windows 7 computer to an external USB drive. Installed iTunes 64 bit on my Windows 10 computer. Rebooted after the install just to make sure. Opened iTunes and added the iTunes folder on my USB drive to the iTunes library on the windows 10 computer with the add folder to library option. When this process was finished, I connected my iPhone and was asked if I wanted to trust this computer. I said yes both on my computer and on my iPhone. I was then asked if I wanted to authorize this computer to connect to my iPhone. I said yes, filled in the email and password, and I was told how many devices I now had connected to this iTunes. I then went to llook for my apps on the iPhone to make sure what was there. I was then presented with a list of apps I could either install or remove. I didn't understand this at first because all my apps were already installed. I eventually realized that those that said install, were already on the iPhone and those that said remove were ones I had deleted but still showed up in the list. Given this discovery, I left things the way they were and pressed sync. I have to say that I did this with a bit of trepidation, because I hoped I had understood this correctly and that it was not going to remove apps from my phone. When the sync was finished, everything on my computer matched what was on my iPhone. I then went into preferences and set those the way I wanted them and not to the defaults which the new iTunes had loaded. I then backed up my computer both to the cloud and to my Windows 10 computer. Now, there is one caveat here. I don't have a lot of music. This was basically to get my apps to the new library in Windows 10. I don't know what happens to music that one may have stored on ones computer in various places that are connected to iTunes as simply pointers to the music in various folders on the old computer. There must be a way to do this by the way you allow iTunes to handle your music, but I am in no way an expert on this, so I am not sure what to say here. This much I can tell you. When I added the old library to the library on the windows 10 computer, I noticed that all my music titles said they could not be located. But once I synced with my iPhone, they appeared. So, please understand that I am not the person to talk with about one transfers a large iTunes music library to the new computer. It may work the way I did it. My fall back plan had this worked was to simply overwrite the iTunes folder on the Windows 10 computer with the one from my USB drive, but I didn't have to do that. I'm guessing that if one keeps their music on their computer in one place that iTunes knows about, one might just move that folder to the new computer with the same name and folder structure that existed on the old computer. I'm not really sure. I hope this helps. If not, I don't mind answering more questions. Neal -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. 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. 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