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Moving an iTunes remote library to a local drive
Authored by: kmriley on Jan 09, '04 05:43:58PM

I had to do something similar to this because I moved my mp3s from one machine to another. Suddenly, iTunes could find no music and I had to manually find each file because it thought all the music was sitting on the previous machine over the network.

I have tried what you did - manually changing the xml file, which is infinitely easier. But, when I try to import that new xml file, it still cannot find the files. The new xml file show that all the missing files still sit on the remote drive.

Anyone still active on this problem and have a fix?



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Moving an iTunes remote library to a local drive
Authored by: Alexai on Jan 09, '04 10:24:13PM

sounds all quite complicated. Why can´t i just call up itunes preferences, go to the advanced tab, change the itunes music folder to where you want to swap your entire collection, then deselect "copy files to itunes music folder when adding to library. Then you swap your files to the new location - and that is where itunes will look for the music. You´re done i think. That´t what i intend to do.
But after reading your posts, i hesitate. Please could you detail why i should not go ahead with the procedure layed out here. What am i missing?



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