Okay, now what??

[dreamshark]

Fortunately I still had a copy of my entire iTunes library on the computer in the attic. Maybe a little out of date, but should be close enough. I put it on my new 32G thumb drive (which it came closer to filling up than I expected) and then transferred it to my sparkling new Seagate external drive.

Now how do I tell iTunes where my music library is? It's still showing all the old iTunes content but all the links are broken.

Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

The easiest way is to trash the database, and then drop the new folder on top of the iTunes icon.

B

[daedala.livejournal.com]

Agreed. I wanted to save my old library with lyrics, and it just wasn't working out. It's probably named something like "iTunes Library.xml" or something.

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

What do you mean by "trash the database?"

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Delete the file.

B

Never mind, figured it out

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

There's a setting in the Advanced iTunes menu where you tell it where to look for the "iTunes music folder." All I had to do was change that to the location on my new hard disk and restart iTunes. My music library is back!! Coolio.

Now all I have to do is convince iTunes to update my podcasts. Looks like I need to Unsubscribe/Subscribe to each one to kick off the update. Well, that's pretty easy.

Re: Never mind, figured it out

[daedala.livejournal.com]

Depending on how out-of-date the copy is, there will still be broken links. (This may be entirely fine; just letting you know.)