Applications :: Backing Up Purchased ITunes Music Onto A External Hard Drive?

Jan 11, 2009

Is there a easy way to transfer purchased iTunes music onto a external hard drive other then burning them to a cd/dvd?

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Applications :: Transfer Music To External Hard Drive / Syncing Music With Itunes?

Oct 23, 2009

At the moment most of my music is either stored on my Macbook or on an external hard drive. Is it possible to transfer all my music and videos to an external hard drive and then sync it with Itune so that every time I plug it in I can access them?

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Applications :: Installing ITunes On External Hard Drive / Playing Music From External Hdd?

Aug 19, 2007

In other words... I have moved my music library to the external hard drive, as per an earlier thread I read here on the forums. It worked like quite well. Now that it is working perfectly, I am having a hard time leaving well enough alone. It is never a good idea for me to think too much...Can itunes be installed and run on/from an external hard drive? If so, how?

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Applications :: Using Itunes For Listening To Music Off External Hard Drive On MBP?

Jan 14, 2011

So I checked the threads on here and tried multiple ways and cant figure this out.

I have a MBP, itunes 10.1.1, and a western digital passport essential.

I loaded pictures and my old itunes library off a HP pavilion desktop.

On my Mac, when I try and open my external hard drive off the desktop and click my itunes library file I stored from my old HP it simply wont open. I right click it and click open with itunes and the file icon fades off my screen very quickly like its trying to import it but wont. I have tried dragging it and holding option when opening itunes, which actually does display the playlist but only with explanation points because the files cannot be found.

I just want to be able to plug my external in and listen to my playlist I have stored on the western digital, on my mac book without erasing my current itunes playlist on my MBP.

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Applications :: Storing Itunes Music Library On External HDD (not Backing Up)

Feb 14, 2009

All of my music has been stored on an external HDD in a folder: itunes/itunesmusic/. I've gone into Edit, Preferences, Advanced and told it that my I Tunes Music Location is: f:/itunes/itunesmusic But when I open Itunes, I still don't see my songs. I don't want copies of my songs stored on my computer (which is what I think will happen if I "consolidate")

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Applications :: Can I Move Itunes Music Library To External Hard Drive?

Jan 28, 2008

I recently moved my music library to an external library by changing the pathway in Edit/Preferences/Advanced and then consolidating the library. Everything worked for a while but now when I open itunes it is not able to find all the files. Bizarrely for a lot of albums it can find one or two of the songs but the rest all get the "Unable to locate original music file" error message. The music is all there on the hard drive but I don't want to have to manually locate each one. Does anyone know what is causing this or have a script to locate the rest of the music automatically?

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Applications :: ITunes Keeps Changing Library Folder / Saving Music Files To External Hard Drive?

Oct 2, 2010

I have a WD external hard drive that I got for the holiday's last year.Here lately I've been using it as my iTunes library. A great way to free up some space on my Powerbook g4. Question is, why does iTunes keep changing my library folder after I'd already changed it when I initially set up the hard drive as my iTunes library destination?

Another question is how do I make sure that all my music files automatically go to the folder on the external hard drive when I download music. For example I may snag a free song from a website and will double click it after downloading and it plays in itunes. I want that file to be saved on my external hard drive as well (yes it's plugged up and plugged in).

I only have an 8g ipod so I have to constantly check and uncheck songs that I want to hear, so I want to be sure they are all in the same locale. And one way I know that certain files are on my internal and not external is when i unplug my external those files still play when they shouldn't unless it's plugged up.

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MacBook :: Backing Up Applications On External Hard Drive?

Jan 25, 2009

I have a question that I should probably know the answer to, but I don't. I have a Western Digital My Book on the way and I am going to back everything on my Macbook up on there so I can do an archive and install.

Is it possible to put applications like Mac:Office 2008 on the hard drive so that I don't have to install it again, or can you only back up certain files on externals? I am not very familiar with backing up data.

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Applications :: Backing Up Computer Onto External Hard Drive

Aug 11, 2010

Does anyone know of an application that will let me back up sync certain folders on my computer to my external hard drive. Because I use two different computers (iBook and a thinkpad(Windows)) I need to keep them both the same (Documents wise) So, I have an external hard drive. Which I would like to be able to sync certain folders on my ibook to my hard drive. I am running iBook G4 Mac OS X 10.4.11.

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ITunes :: Recovering Music From An External Hard Drive?

Apr 16, 2012

My hard drive on my iMac died. However, I saved my music on my back-up Seagate Drive. Now my iMac has a nice new drive and a freshly downloaded copy of iTunes. I found the music on the back-up drive. So far, so good. Now, all I gotta do is get the music files from the back-up to iTunes.So: 

(a) How do I do that, since my efforts so far have been unsuccessful. 

(b) Can I assume all my original lists and albums are kaput and will have to be recreated and reorganized? 

(c) When I sync my iPod to the new library, can I assume it will scramble my existing iPod configuration to meet the new lists and album configuration? 

Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

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ITunes :: Move Just Music To An External Hard Drive?

Jun 13, 2012

I'm trying to set up our home network so that everyone can access our large music library through a hard drive attached to apple extreme, but manage all of their other iTunes media files (apps, podcasts, etc) on their own devices. Is it possible for iTunes to have this type of split personality?

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OS X :: ITunes On External Hard Drive Unable To Recognize Music

Jan 6, 2011

I have 100gigs of music so I successfully transferred my iTunes media to an external hard drive, and identified this new location within iTunes/Preferences/Advanced/Location. Everything worked great until I had to shut down and start up.

Now, it no longer recognizes the media library. When I try to play a track in iTunes, iTunes says the original file could not be found. It prompts me to locate this one track, which I do, and that one track will play. All of the other tracks have the (!) sign next to them in my iTunes library.

I have double checked the settings in my iTunes preferences, everything appears to be configured as when I first made the successful transfer (identifying the external hard drive as the location).

I've made sure to restart once the external hard drive is connected.

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Intel Mac :: Move All Music From Itunes Onto An External Hard Drive?

May 3, 2012

can i move all my music from itunes onto an external hard drive to free up some memory?

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

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ITunes :: External Hard Drive - Movies / Music Transfer

Jun 7, 2012

I have an Intel iMac and wish to move the movies and music I have in ITunes to a WD 2TB MyBook Studio External Hard Drive, free up my hard drive and still use iTunes. What is the easiest way to move movies to the external drive and then wipe them off my computer to free up space.

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How To Route ITunes To Music Folders On External Hard Drive

Jun 14, 2012

i successfully rerouted iTunes so that the program would find my music library on external hard drive. Two days ago, my Apple MacBook computer was updated to the Lion operating system. iTunes was also updated.Now I have to go back into iTunes and give the program new instruction to go find the music files on external hard drive.My folder on external hard drive, called "iTunes Music," contains various music files and also, I notice, a folder called "iTunes." Within that "iTunes" folder, the following folders or files are located: [code] I do not understand any of this. I do not understand WHICH FILE OR FOLDER I should instruct iTunes to go to in order to find the desired music files.Once the desired files are found, they should appear in the iTunes window on screen. This is not happening.

I have tried holding down the Option key while starting iTunes, which yields a window that asks for me to CHOOSE LIBRARY. I choose the iTunes library file ( iTunes Library.itl) that is located on external hard drive. However, NOTHING HAPPENS. iTunes does not do anything. When the program opens, nothing is visible in the iTunes window, where normally songs are listed. No playlists on the lefthand side. NOTHING.

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ITunes :: Moving Music And Movies From MBA To External Hard Drive

Jul 2, 2012

I need to move the music and movies from my MacBook Air (original) to an external hard drive, after I do this, do I create a new music folder and media folder on my computer to load music/movies in via the dedicatd external drive and then would I be able to move the newly imported to the external drive which would be my main site of storage?

Info:
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Moving music/media

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ITunes For Mac :: Transfer Music From External Hard Drive With Extension ITL?

Dec 10, 2014

I transferred my music from my old computer to an external hard drive.  Now trying to get my music to load into my new computer via external hard drive but I do not think it will due to the extension of .itl.  what shall I do?

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iPhone 5s, iOS 8.1.2

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MacBook Air :: Using External Hard Drive As Source For Storing ITunes Music?

Feb 5, 2012

Is there a way I can use my external hard drive without the files being transferred on to my computer? as like like my iTunes music being on my hard drive without them being copied onto my computers hard drive ? because i dont have that much memory and i wanted my external hard drive to be the source for my music files and not my computer.

Info:
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.0.x)

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ITunes :: Put All Music From Multiple Computers / Devices Onto One External Hard Drive?

Jul 5, 2012

I have two desktop macs, a macbook air, two iPads, and two iPhones. I have one Apple account that I use for all music - including music my college aged kids download.  My problem is that I would like to get all the music into one library, delete the duplicates, then have the external drive store all the music.  Is there a practical way to do this?  This way I can set up my devices so that they all have the same music and playlists. 

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ITunes :: Moving Music Files To External Hard Drive - Ipod Syncing?

Dec 27, 2010

I am running out of space on my laptop so I am moving all my music to an external hard drive. If I keep my file directory structure and naming the same, can I simply "re-point" iTunes to this new storage location and all my songs (etc...) will keep working in iTunes? Will storing the music on an external hard drive effect the performance (speed) of iTunes and/or iPod syncing?

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ITunes For Mac :: Purchased TV Series / Movies And Music Downloaded To External HD - File Will Not Load

Nov 30, 2014

I have purchased itunes tv series, movies and music and have transferred them onto an external hard drive and tried to play them on my tv on a media hub.  The file will not load.  Is there some form of blocking by itunes or another p[roblem and how do I fix it?

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Windows
7

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MacBook Pro :: Backing Up Onto An External Hard Drive?

Jun 11, 2010

I have an external drive that is the same size as the internal drive in my mbp. I have bootcamp partition. How do I back up both partitions onto my external drive?

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MacBook Pro :: Backing Up To External Hard Drive?

Dec 7, 2014

Im using a macbook pro 13" retina, running yosemite 10 10.

I use a 1Tb ext hard drive for storage, rather than the macs internal storage, I am thinking of using a 2Tb ext drive for back up. When I back up will the attached 1Tb ext drive be backed up at the same time?

Info:
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10)

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Applications :: Backing Up ITunes Movies / Music?

Apr 30, 2009

I've never bought iTunes music/movies before so I never bothered to know this stuff. I only buy iPhone games, and as you know it's no problem to just re-download them after a erase-and-install or whatever. But with movies+music, you can't do this. I know they are riddled with DRM (the movies, anyway), so I'm wondering how I'd preserve them between reinstalls. I know I can burn a DVD or CD and do it that way. But to be environmentally friendly (and more hassle-free ) can I just, say, transfer the movies to a folder on my iDisk, then after the reinstall, transfer it back into iTunes? Will it retain all the information, play back fine, and everything despite the DRM?

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Restore Itunes Music Folder From Time Machine To An External Portable Hard Drive?

Feb 18, 2012

How do you restore your itunes music folder from time machine back-up to an external portable hard drive?

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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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OS X :: External Hard Drive / Software For Backing Up MacBook

Feb 24, 2009

In case my computer is stolen again, I need to back-up /duplicate my hard drive. Any recommendations for best/proven products? Looking at Seagate Free Agent but unsure of software unless it comes with it.

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OS X :: Backing Up An External Hard Drive With Time Machine?

Dec 26, 2009

Can anyone tell me how to tell Time Machine how to find an external hard drive (that is attached to myiMac) that I'd like to back up? If recoginizes it in a window for selecting a drive to back up to, but I can't seem to find any window to tell it what drives I want backed up. It backs up the internal hard drive on the iMac.

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MacBook Pro :: Backing Up All Files To An External Hard Drive

Apr 11, 2012

I recently converted over to a Macbook Pro from PC and had all of my PC data saved to an external Hard Drive.  I can retreive the data fine, but I can't save anything to the Hard Drive.  I have plenty of room on my Macbook, but old habits are hard to break and I like to back everything up at least once a week.   

I do not want to reformat my External Hard drive as there is ALOT of information on there that would be lost. So, how can I copy things over there, or drag them over to the External?  When I try, it gives me the circle with the line through it. 

And if you have time, tell me about Time Machine.  I am interested, but it seems like alot of work, because I would have to copy everything off the hard drive, let Time Machine reformat it, and then copy it back.  Seems VERY time consuming. 

External hard drive is 2TB and has approximately 90GB on it. 

Info:
MacBook Pro, iOS 5.0.1

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MacBook :: Backing Up Pictures On External Hard Drive?

Dec 1, 2014

I have a macbook and I'm having trouble backing up my pictures on an external hard drive.  The Macbook won't install the backup drive soft ware? It is a new Seagate hard drive from costco.

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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

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Applications :: How To Redownload ITunes Purchased Music

May 8, 2009

After losing my iBook HDD and then my external backup drive (long story) I have bought a new Mac and its great etc etc. The problem I have is that I don't have a backup of my huge iTunes library, so I am re-importing all of my music.

I thought the process would be as simple for iTunes purchased music where I could go to my account and redownload it, but I can't seem to see an option for this. Please could someone explain how I would go about redownloading all of my iTunes purchased music?

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