moving my Itunes files (songs/movies) to an external HD

[Crimson King]

I got a Seagate 500 GB hard drive for a gift, and am interested in moving my itunes songs and films to the HD, is there a way to to them all instead of one at a time?

please help, im not a computer techie

[TheForce8686]

Originally Posted by Crimson King

I got a Seagate 500 GB hard drive for a gift, and am interested in moving my itunes songs and films to the HD, is there a way to to them all instead of one at a time?

please help, im not a computer techie

You should be able to copy all the files at once and drag them over to the hard drive file.

[nefilim]

Originally Posted by Crimson King

I got a Seagate 500 GB hard drive for a gift, and am interested in moving my itunes songs and films to the HD, is there a way to to them all instead of one at a time?

please help, im not a computer techie

yes. just make sure they do not add up more than that 500 Gb

[Crimson King]

Originally Posted by TheForce8686

You should be able to copy all the files at once and drag them over to the hard drive file.

the reason Im doing this is because my old laptop with all my stuff is close to dying, so after I move my files to the HD,can I move them from the HD (the music/ movie files) to my new laptop's Itunes with ease?

[sk33tr]

just throw the entire folder on the external.

i did this (took a while) when i got my 1tb hdd when i re-built my pc. my boot drive is a 128gb ssd and it was starting to get full so i moved everything except os, ms office and the software for all my peripherals. everything else goes on my 1tb drive.

Originally Posted by Crimson King

..so after I move my files to the HD,can I move them from the HD (the music/ movie files) to my new laptop's Itunes with ease?

should be the same process, just in reverse. tag the folder and move it to the appropriate place on your new laptop.

but i'd also suggest keeping them on the external as well. that way you have a backup of the songs/videos you currently have in case something/anything happens.

you may run into some authorizing issues (at least i did when i originally moved mine), but all you should have to do is tell (authorize) itunes to allow you to play the songs/videos on the new laptop.

[Crimson King]

Originally Posted by sk33tr

just throw the entire folder on the external.

i did this (took a while) when i got my 1tb hdd when i re-built my pc. my boot drive is a 128gb ssd and it was starting to get full so i moved everything except os, ms office and the software for all my peripherals. everything else goes on my 1tb drive.



should be the same process, just in reverse. tag the folder and move it to the appropriate place on your new laptop.

but i'd also suggest keeping them on the external as well. that way you have a backup of the songs/videos you currently have in case something/anything happens.

you may run into some authorizing issues (at least i did when i originally moved mine), but all you should have to do is tell (authorize) itunes to allow you to play the songs/videos on the new laptop.

I got the seagate HD hooked up to my computer USB port, how do I move the files to it?
like I said before, I'm not computer savvy.

[nefilim]

Originally Posted by Crimson King

I got the seagate HD hooked up to my computer USB port, how do I move the files to it?
like I said before, I'm not computer savvy.

you should see a new drive in windows explorer

like c:\ is your current drive

edit : weird that it did not pop up automatically...hopefully it is formatted already.

[Blu-Benny]

I don’t mean to hijack the thread, but if I redeemed some digital copies previously and lost them when the laptop crashed…..can I get them back again through my account on itunes??

[nefilim]

Originally Posted by Blu-Benny

I don’t mean to hijack the thread, but if I redeemed some digital copies previously and lost them when the laptop crashed…..can I get them back again through my account on itunes??

I have no idea, but if/when you have itunes account, cant you ask them directly ? Im sure they`ll respond asap.

[MaCruz]

Originally Posted by Blu-Benny

I don’t mean to hijack the thread, but if I redeemed some digital copies previously and lost them when the laptop crashed…..can I get them back again through my account on itunes??

You contact the customer service and they will give you a new code. Never happened to me before but this is based on what I read in the past.









To the OP:

If you plan to keep all your iTunes media in that external HD. Make sure the iTunes in your new laptop will read from the external drive rather than the C Drive of your PC.

You should go into iTunes, click on...

• EDIT

• Preferences

• Select the desired drive where you want iTunes to store music/media.

• Make sure to save/apply as or iTunes won't detect any of your media next time you log in.

[Crimson King]

Originally Posted by nefilim

you should see a new drive in windows explorer

like c:\ is your current drive

edit : weird that it did not pop up automatically...hopefully it is formatted already.

yeah its automatically formatted (the HD), I just need to know how to transport my tunes and movies from my old laptop Itunes library to the HD, and then back onto my new laptop's Itunes library

[nefilim]

Originally Posted by Crimson King

yeah its automatically formatted (the HD), I just need to know how to transport my tunes and movies from my old laptop Itunes library to the HD, and then back onto my new laptop's Itunes library

* so the external hd is plugged in the old laptop and it shows ( new drive )
* do you know where the files ( music and movies ) are ?
* if you do not you should search them : like *.mp3 or *.flac etc do you know what format your movies / music files are ? search function can be found in windows explorer right click c:\ drive.
* when you found them just copy them ( copy / paste on new HD ... right click mouse button)
* import on itunes like MaCruz wrote ...

hope this helps...

[Crimson King]

Originally Posted by nefilim

* so the external hd is plugged in the old laptop and it shows ( new drive )
* do you know where the files ( music and movies ) are ?
* if you do not you should search them : like *.mp3 or *.flac etc do you know what format your movies / music files are ? search function can be found in windows explorer right click c:\ drive.
* when you found them just copy them ( copy / paste on new HD ... right click mouse button)
* import on itunes like MaCruz wrote ...

hope this helps...

my music and movies are on the C drive

[Crimson King]

Originally Posted by Crimson King

my music and movies are on the C drive

I'm on Itunes and cant get my files to move to the hd which is named E drive, Im trying the export library link and nothing

[Crimson King]

Originally Posted by Crimson King

I'm on Itunes and cant get my files to move to the hd which is named E drive, Im trying the export library link and nothing

help please

[MaCruz]

Originally Posted by Crimson King

help please

Did you try to drag all your iTunes media folder that's stored in your current "C" drive in your PC into your new external HD? I'm assuming you've tried and it should allow you to just drag that iTunes folder into your external HD. The tricky part is setting up your iTunes to direct where all media is stored.

I've done this several times because music/movies takes up too much space in an internal HD so I rather store it externally.

[wilky61]

Originally Posted by Crimson King

I'm on Itunes and cant get my files to move to the hd which is named E drive, Im trying the export library link and nothing

No, that's something else. That's not going to help you here. The iTunes "library" is an iTunes file that tells iTunes where to find all of your songs on your hard drive; it is only a file that contains "links" to your songs.

You need to go into the folders on your C:\ and physically copy+paste the song files (MP3 or FLAC or whatever) themselves from your C:\ to your new E:\. If all of your songs are housed within one huge folder, then just copy+paste that folder. (This can take a long time if you have tons of songs.)

After that process finishes, then open up iTunes and import your new music folder from the new location (this may also take a long time; iTunes tends to be laggy). You may have to delete your old library first (or else you might end up with two duplicate libraries at the same time). Note that when you delete your old iTunes library, you are only deleting the "links" to the songs and not the songs themselves (you will lose information such as Play Count/Ratings, though).

[Crimson King]

Originally Posted by wilky61

No, that's something else. That's not going to help you here. The iTunes "library" is an iTunes file that tells iTunes where to find all of your songs on your hard drive; it is only a file that contains "links" to your songs.

You need to go into the folders on your C:\ and physically copy+paste the song files (MP3 or FLAC or whatever) themselves from your C:\ to your new E:\. If all of your songs are housed within one huge folder, then just copy+paste that folder. (This can take a long time if you have tons of songs.)

After that process finishes, then open up iTunes and import your new music folder from the new location (this may also take a long time; iTunes tends to be laggy). You may have to delete your old library first (or else you might end up with two duplicate libraries at the same time). Note that when you delete your old iTunes library, you are only deleting the "links" to the songs and not the songs themselves (you will lose information such as Play Count/Ratings, though).

well I did this and it seems to be working, I went to computer, clicked music and used the "send to" feature, all my music files seem to be transfering to HD (which is drive E), buts its taking a long time, been over an hour

[Crimson King]

Originally Posted by Crimson King

well I did this and it seems to be working, I went to computer, clicked music and used the "send to" feature, all my music files seem to be transfering to HD (which is drive E), buts its taking a long time, been over an hour

well everything is on the HD, but I cant get it to show up on my new computers Itunes libary

[sk33tr]

Originally Posted by Crimson King

well everything is on the HD, but I cant get it to show up on my new computers Itunes libary

yeah, that happens most of the time.

itunes is set to look for your library in a specific folder on a specific drive. since you've moved everything, it can't find it.

Open iTunes.
From the Edit menu, choose Preferences.
Click the Advanced tab in the Preferences window.
Click the Change button in the iTunes Media folder location pane.
In the Change Media Folder Location window that appears, navigate to the location where you would like your new Media folder to be created.



try that and see if it works.....

best of luck