babar
08-03-2006, 12:03 PM
HDD was getting full so I purchased an external drive and followed itunes/support instructions:
1. Moved the itunes music folder to the external drive. [all 43.7gb].
2. Edit --> Preferences --> Advanced > changed the location to the external folder
3. Clicked yes to keep music folder organized be itunes
1 week later: I wanted to backup the external drive to another external drive and began using that drive instead (I did make the change to iTunes by repeating steps 2 & 3).
Every time I loaded itunes the computer would look for the external drive (assuming it to be mapped to the same drive letter) and if it was mapped to a different letter, it would show excalamation mark in the itunes folder. To remedy this I assigned a drive letter to the external drive as explained here "http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93499"
At the office I dock the tablet pc and plug in the external drive (the ibm dock covers the usb port) so I have to plug it into another port. This required telling iTunes where the external drive is (repeating steps 2 & 3).
Unfortunately, whilst doing this exercise I might have clicked <ENTER> and stopped the keep itunes folder organized process mid-way.
I still see all the songs in iTunes, however in the external drive when I open the folder only albums beginning with letters A & B are listed, with only about 1/2 of the ones beginning with B.
The size of this folder is 1.7 mb versus the iTunes library which is 43.7gb
I would like to move the folder to antoher drive and also back it up and/or share within the allowed 5 authorized computers, however with Windows Explorer only recognizing 1.7gb I am at a loss.
Currently am not panicking because I know its somewhere as I am able to play the songs. I randomly chose tracks beginning with differnt letters of the alphabet and they all play fine.
I also am able to sync my GV 60gb ipod and get new playlists. I would really appreciate help on this and have tried in vain to find the solution in these forums.
Thanks.:)
PLEASE HELP: been almost 2 weeks since I have been able to use itunes as I have no idea where it will store the files.
I checked the external disk (Maxtor II) and found that about approx. 40gb is accounted for. I.E:
Free Space: 86.5
Total Size: 233
Checking each folder within the drive I find less than 100 being used by all current files.
I do have a month old backup on another drive (Western Digital 250gb) which contains 43 gb of music (7,000 files) of which I can only see a handful in the folder I currently sync with.
Besides assigning a drive letter, and possibly stopping itunes in an activity (mentioned above), both of which I have tried to since correct (removed the drive letter signing and after changing the drive location in itunes/advanced I ran the short exercise (Which itunes does to account for all file locations) but still nothing.
I cannot fathom what might be the issue!
I have run disk check and disk defrag to no avail.
:shake: :shake:
PLEASE HELP. Shall I just copy the old on top of the new?
if I do, will I permamently lose the 40gb of space?
how might it affect my itunes library (playlists, albums, etc.) which is the most important thing here...
1. Moved the itunes music folder to the external drive. [all 43.7gb].
2. Edit --> Preferences --> Advanced > changed the location to the external folder
3. Clicked yes to keep music folder organized be itunes
1 week later: I wanted to backup the external drive to another external drive and began using that drive instead (I did make the change to iTunes by repeating steps 2 & 3).
Every time I loaded itunes the computer would look for the external drive (assuming it to be mapped to the same drive letter) and if it was mapped to a different letter, it would show excalamation mark in the itunes folder. To remedy this I assigned a drive letter to the external drive as explained here "http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93499"
At the office I dock the tablet pc and plug in the external drive (the ibm dock covers the usb port) so I have to plug it into another port. This required telling iTunes where the external drive is (repeating steps 2 & 3).
Unfortunately, whilst doing this exercise I might have clicked <ENTER> and stopped the keep itunes folder organized process mid-way.
I still see all the songs in iTunes, however in the external drive when I open the folder only albums beginning with letters A & B are listed, with only about 1/2 of the ones beginning with B.
The size of this folder is 1.7 mb versus the iTunes library which is 43.7gb
I would like to move the folder to antoher drive and also back it up and/or share within the allowed 5 authorized computers, however with Windows Explorer only recognizing 1.7gb I am at a loss.
Currently am not panicking because I know its somewhere as I am able to play the songs. I randomly chose tracks beginning with differnt letters of the alphabet and they all play fine.
I also am able to sync my GV 60gb ipod and get new playlists. I would really appreciate help on this and have tried in vain to find the solution in these forums.
Thanks.:)
PLEASE HELP: been almost 2 weeks since I have been able to use itunes as I have no idea where it will store the files.
I checked the external disk (Maxtor II) and found that about approx. 40gb is accounted for. I.E:
Free Space: 86.5
Total Size: 233
Checking each folder within the drive I find less than 100 being used by all current files.
I do have a month old backup on another drive (Western Digital 250gb) which contains 43 gb of music (7,000 files) of which I can only see a handful in the folder I currently sync with.
Besides assigning a drive letter, and possibly stopping itunes in an activity (mentioned above), both of which I have tried to since correct (removed the drive letter signing and after changing the drive location in itunes/advanced I ran the short exercise (Which itunes does to account for all file locations) but still nothing.
I cannot fathom what might be the issue!
I have run disk check and disk defrag to no avail.
:shake: :shake:
PLEASE HELP. Shall I just copy the old on top of the new?
if I do, will I permamently lose the 40gb of space?
how might it affect my itunes library (playlists, albums, etc.) which is the most important thing here...