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Any advice greatly appreciated. I have bought an 80gb USB external hard drive and want to put my itunes onto this off my C drive and when complete delete the 15gb already in itunes on the Cdrive. I tried just a couple of tracks first and even with the new external drive not connected as soon as it is, and I open itunes on it (j-drive) the songs have gone from it too......................am I being dosy and do I need to do some other PC trickery to not delete my itunes off both!!
Thanks in advance.

There are two files which HAVE to live on your main computer drive, they`re in My Music\iTunes
They`re iTunes Music Library.xml and iTunes Library.itl
They`re basically the data base files that iTunes uses.

If you install iTunes on the External, you will need to leave these files where they are.
You will need to change the Music Folder location in the Edit/Preferences/Advanced tab in iTunes. transfer your music to an appropriately named folder
Also tick the "Keep iTunes Music folder organised" and the Copy files to iTunes folder when adding to Library" boxes.

Once you`ve done all this, if you still can`t see your files in iTunes, try "Consolidate Library" in the Advanced menu

hope this helps

Steve

This item was edited on Friday, 18th November 2005, 19:50