ITunes :: How To Move Files From MBP To MBA
Jun 30, 2012
I have an older MPB (mid-2009) and an new MBA (late-2010). Planning on getting a new MBA after Mountain Lion comes out sometime in July. That means moving files from the MPB and the MBA over to the new MBA at some point. In preparation of that I want to get all my iTunes files onto the current MBA. Trouble is that I have used both the MBP & MBA to import music or videos as well as purchases into iTunes on both.
Without totally screwing things up what is the best way to get iTunes files (purchased or imported) from one Mac to the other without losing or corrupting things? I already have a problem that there are movies on my iPhone4 that will not remove even though they are not checked when I sync. How do you join iTunes from 2 Mac's? Do you have to deauthorise one?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 256GB | 4GB RAM | late 2010
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Apr 14, 2012
I've downloaded mp3 files from various websites that give away free music. They download as zip files and once I unzip them, I move the folder to the "Music" folder. Then I import them into iTunes (File ---> Add to Library). Â I'd like to make the "Music" folder more organized. Right now I have the "iTunes" folder within the "Music" folder, in addition to SEVERAL folders I've added from the free music I've downloaded. Â Even though I've already added this music to iTunes, if I delete the folders within the "Music" folder, iTunes will no longer be able to play it because it will say it cannot find the source. I get this, but was hoping there was a way to get it into the iTunes folder (the way it gets loaded when you import a CD or buy a song online- it automatically goes there). Â
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jun 21, 2012
How do I move iTunes music files to another computer?Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Dec 29, 2010
When you consolidate your itunes library does it actually move all your files to one folder or does it just make a copy or reference them? Because my itunes media is scattered throughout my computer and an external hard drive and I'd like to move it all to one spot.
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Mar 14, 2012
I have 2 gigs left on my ssd drive. I have attached an external usb drive 2tb. How do I migrate over something like itunes and or iphoto to free up some space on my internal drive?
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Final Cut Pro X, Mac OS X (10.7)
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Jun 17, 2014
I own an iPad mini Gen1 with a ton of music, apps etc. from my old computer which broke down recently. I'd like to sync my iPad to my Time Capsule, apps, backups and all without losing any files. I still have access to the old Apple ID. So, how do I sync without deleting everything on it? I already deleted my entire iPod trying to do this. Â
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iPad, iOS 7.1, Running OSX Mountain Lion.
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Jun 23, 2014
I want to move the location of my iTunes library music files. At present they are all on my time machine . I want to move them all to my imac. Can I do that and keep all my playlists and play counts?
its 1000s of songs . Originally I used the time machine as a networked drive but it can cause the songs to pause so I'm thinking it would be better to have the songs on the internal imac drive
how can I move the songs so I can re-open iTunes and the playlists (with plays in the 100s) find the song in the new place?
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Jun 21, 2014
need to free up space on my hard drive wanted to move just my movie files to my external hard drive and leave my music on computer
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Feb 9, 2012
I want to Move the iTunes library database files to another location other then the default /User/Username/Music/iTunes.Â
I want it on my secondary drive. I have found countless link to moving the media files, that is not what I want. I already have them exactly where I want those.Â
I do not what the Library files on my Boot drive under my username. I want to place it on my secondary drive under a folder called iTunes.Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Aug 18, 2008
I do a lot of work that involves advertising, photography, video editing, DVD authoring, photoshop and illustrator files. The illustrator vector files are fairly compressed but the photoshop raster files can be extremely large. Sometimes, I have someone wishing to send me a large portfolio folder, or I find I may want to send a big file to someone else. As an example, I recently had an artist send me a hi-res portfolio of his book covers to be made into a promotional DVD for comic-con. One of the CD's he sent me had the wrong pics on it, so I had to wait for the correct pics to be sent, which delayed the project several days. I can compress a single file for emailing, but can not drop the resolution as a way to minimize folder size if the file is going to be printed. I work predominantly on a mac, but many of my customers use windows based operating systems.
What is the best method for sending and receiving large digital files from a variety of customers? If I get an FTP site, can I keep one client from accessing someone else's folders? I noticed that Skype allows for file transfer... is VOIP practical for sending large files? This month's macworld made mention of a bit torrent program for such a chore. What about using a bit torrent program such as Transmission for creating a bit torrent folder for moving large files to a single customer? Are paid services available? Is a paid service the best choice? I am looking for a method that I can both send and receive these large files. It should be easy enough for a less than tech savvy customer to send me files after I give them a minimal explanation of how to do it. Preferably, it would involve no cost to a customer, and no need for them to install software.
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Aug 31, 2007
I was wondering if there's a way to move files instead of copy them via dragging with the mouse, or even a keyboard shortcut? I mostly run into this problem when I'm trying to move stuff to and from the Firewire External Drive I have connected to my Mac. It's kind of frustrating since I have to delete all the original ones, since I simply don't need them anymore.
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Jan 10, 2008
I want to move(drag) folders from one finder window to another.From my laptop to by backup drive.how to do it?
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Jun 28, 2009
However, I am apparently too dumb to figure out how I can move (cut and paste at the same time) a folder from on location on my hard drive to another without going back to the original area and delete the folder after the "fake" moving process. It seems that MAC does not support the physical movement of a folderfrom location A to B.
Scenario:
I have a folder called A
I select the folder (click with mouse)
I drag the folder to the desired destination B
I release the mouse and what happens: MAC starts to copy the folder and its files.
I read on several forums and pages that it is possible if you hold down the command key (after you click the folder you want to move) but it does not work for me. Does anyone has a simple, short answer whether it is possible to move a folder which contains files from location A to B on my mac (same hard drive)? This cannot be true that this does not work in the FINDER. Even if I select the folder go in the Finder menu to "Edit" (cut is grayed out and not clickable) it does not give me the option to perform a cut and paste. So, does cut and paste work for folders on a MAC or not.
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Sep 26, 2009
I need to know if it is possible to open two different folders that are in "MY Documents" folder at the same time so I can drag files from one to the other. I'm use to doing this in windows and can't seem to do it on a mac. It won't let me open two at a time.
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Nov 10, 2009
I am new to Mac. I just need to move some files to my external HDD. When I open the folder these files are in they all highlight and I am able to drag them to my external hard drive. However, once I get them into the hard drive folder a red circle with an "x" comes up indicating that I cannot drop here. I also noticed that the external hard disk folder has an icon that is a pen with a circle and a line thought it. I am thinking that this means that I cannot write to that drive. I am able to move files from the external to the Mac.
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Mar 25, 2010
Recently started using SD cards and Mem Stick ProDUo cards.
Problem is I cannot seem to get the files that I wish to move or copy onto the cards
I get this error message :
The Finder can�t complete the operation because some data in �Inimaker.gpe� can�t be read or written.
(Error code -36)
The files can be moved or copied withing my Mac absolutley fine, just happens when trying to move to the mem cards.
There is nothing wrong with the files by the way....
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Aug 13, 2010
My Mac Pro died. It's either the logic board or the graphics card, don't know which and the guys at the Apple store can't tell me. The HD is still good though. It has a Windows and a Mac OS partition. My new computer uses Windows 7. How would I go about getting the files off of the old hard drive -- the Mac OS partition -- and onto a Windows PC?
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May 27, 2012
How do I move files?
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MacBook Air
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Jun 22, 2012
How do I move all files from an old PPC to a new Mac Mini?
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Mac Pro 2 X 3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon, Mac OS X (10.5.2), 8 GB memory
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Jan 9, 2011
I have been collating files and documents over the past few months. I have decided to keep them in a more organised fashion so I created a folder for films, music, etc and then I want to put further folders in the folders so I can keep certain files together.
I have created the folder but cant seem to move the files in to it - I can copy it then paste it but that seems a bit long winded just to move a file in to another folder (folder within folder.)
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Nov 18, 2008
I've got a folder with several thousand jpegs in it. I need to move 999 of them to another folder. I have the name of each file (the full directory listing actually) I need to move in a text file. I couldn't figure out how to enter in the file names to automator and I can't figure out how to use the terminal mv command with many files.
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Jan 5, 2009
NOTE: I am doing this with Tiger. I have read complaints about how Windows Explorer is better than OS X Finder. One popular complaint is that it is impossible to copy/move a file from one folder to another folder outside the current one without two windows as Finder doesn't have a split window setup like Explorer. This simply isn't true. Mac OS X simply handles this differently than Windows. Heres how...
1. Open a window and go to the folder that you want to copy/move files to.
2. Drag that folder to your sidebar (+T)
3. Navigate to the folder that contains what you want to copy/move.
4. Drag your file(s) to the folder you just put in your sidebar to move them or hold 'option' and drag to copy them.
5. If you don't want the folder you copied to permanently in your sidebar just drag it out.
If your needs are more robust and you want to copy/move between many folders you can drag as many folders to your sidebar as you can fit. Plus your folders will be just as you left them when you go back to them (with the exception of the view). The sidebar doesn't have to be permanent and is your friend .
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Feb 2, 2009
I use Lightroom 2 to catalog my photos. I am in the habit of shooting in RAW+JPG mode which means when I download my photos there is both a .NEF and a .JPG file for each photo. Having done this for several years on a PC, I now want to use iPhoto to view the jpgs and keep with Lightroom for the nefs. I therefore want to move the .JPG files from /Photography/RAW/<Year>/<Month>/<Day> to /Photography/JPG/<Year>/<Month>/<Day>. So far the only way I've worked out is to copy the entire folder structure then use Spotlight to find the nefs within the new folder structure and delete them.
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Mar 10, 2009
So the mac came last night. everything is fine. Moved my files from my old windows backup drive to the desktop of my mac. About 250 gigs. But now moving files from my backup folder, on the desktop to say, music or pictures, is just as slow within the machine as if I were moving them through a USB connection. Is that normal for OSX? is there a faster way? Windows moves files within its OS, lightning fast.
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Aug 26, 2009
I'm trying to rearrange files within a folder. Like move episodes to have them in order. But I can't figure it out. First time i've ever tried to.
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Nov 1, 2009
For example, my iTunes folder. It's got multiple artist folders, and album folders within those. Is there any app that would allow me to get all the media files from all of those folders into one single folder?
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Mar 8, 2010
I have the "cannot move files" error message, and after 10hours of idefrag booted from a CD, it still says the same message.
So i assume i have to format and reinstall OSX?
I can backup using time machine to an exernal drive, thats no probs, but when i reinstall OSX i dont have my snowleopard disks to hand, would that be a problem, or would it copy from timemachine? (its at a parents house and i wont be able to get it till next week).
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May 23, 2010
My parents just got a new Gateway desktop PC, and they want some music/movies. I have a ton on my MBP hard drive, so I just figured I could move the files over thru some way like firewire or something (both computers have firewire ports).
what would be the easiest? And would the fact that the harddrives are configured differently effect this? HFS to NTFS?
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Apr 15, 2012
Is there an easy way to move all my stuff from my old Macbook Pro to my new one?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 9, 2012
My iMac is networked via ethernet.
My MBAir is networked via wireless.
I move files back and forth between the two.
Is there an advantage to using a Thunderbolt cable between the two?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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