Move iTunes audio files between hard drives via script

Sep 28, '05 05:40:00AM

Contributed by: groovy_movin

Did you ever have the problem that the internal hard drive of your laptop can no longer hold all your audio files? Ever looked for a way to move (not copy!) audio files between different hard drives without iTunes losing touch with the library?

I did, and I couldn't find anything on the web, so I wrote my own script (502KB download) to do the job. Please use the script with care! I cannot be sure it works on your setup. It is extensively documented, so please, read everything and customize as necessary prior to running.

[robg adds: I have not tested this script; I just made sure the code compiled on my machine and read some of the comments. As noted above, this will do some serious things to your music library, so you'll want to be certain you've got a recent backup, just in case!]

Oct 27 Update: New script uploaded...

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