iTunes library

Petermc83

Hi guys, I am wondering if u can help me, I have run out of room on my laptop, its 5yrs old and capacity of 100gb. I have recently tried to upgrade my iPhone to the iOS 5 but alas, I don't have any room to do so.

So I have copied my music library across to an external hard drive, changed my iTunes library to search for the music to where the files are kept on the external hard drive and consolidated the library ( basically everything that the apple support forum told me to do)
However , when I click a song to play on iTunes, the exclamation Mark pops up and I need to physically locate each track back to where it is in the file in the external hard drive.

Is there an easier way to do this?? Any help would be great thanks

Peter

culabula

Petermc83 wrote: »

Hi guys, I am wondering if u can help me, I have run out of room on my laptop, its 5yrs old and capacity of 100gb. I have recently tried to upgrade my iPhone to the iOS 5 but alas, I don't have any room to do so.

So I have copied my music library across to an external hard drive, changed my iTunes library to search for the music to where the files are kept on the external hard drive and consolidated the library ( basically everything that the apple support forum told me to do)
However , when I click a song to play on iTunes, the exclamation Mark pops up and I need to physically locate each track back to where it is in the file in the external hard drive.

Is there an easier way to do this?? Any help would be great thanks

Peter

When I do this, I always use "add to library" from their location on the new hard drive. Never found that anything else worked.

Petermc83

culabula wrote: »

Petermc83 wrote: »

Hi guys, I am wondering if u can help me, I have run out of room on my laptop, its 5yrs old and capacity of 100gb. I have recently tried to upgrade my iPhone to the iOS 5 but alas, I don't have any room to do so.

So I have copied my music library across to an external hard drive, changed my iTunes library to search for the music to where the files are kept on the external hard drive and consolidated the library ( basically everything that the apple support forum told me to do)
However , when I click a song to play on iTunes, the exclamation Mark pops up and I need to physically locate each track back to where it is in the file in the external hard drive.

Is there an easier way to do this?? Any help would be great thanks

Peter

When I do this, I always use "add to library" from their location on the new hard drive. Never found that anything else worked.

Well you see the music is still on the iTunes library. But when I click to play, the exclamation mark comes up and says file cannot be located. Even though I changed where iTunes look for my music ( to a folder in my external hard drive).

MissL

May sound like a stupid question, but did you plug in your harddrive before you opened itunes? Sometimes when I open itunes after my harddrive has been plugged in it has trouble locating the files.

Petermc83

MissL wrote: »

May sound like a stupid question, but did you plug in your harddrive before you opened itunes? Sometimes when I open itunes after my harddrive has been plugged in it has trouble locating the files.

Yea it's been plugged in, I copied all my music files across to it. Then changed where iTunes looked for the files to where the files were in the external folder