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iTunes from external drive on Windows to local drive on Mac
Authored by: LizQuincy on Feb 19, '07 10:50:13AM

In Windows iTunes, I kept my music on an external drive, and my iTunes folder in the default location on the c-drive.

My mac has a lot more space, so I don't need to use the external drive for my music. I transferred all the music to the Mac desktop, as well as the iTunes folder from Windows.

The problem is that the iTunes library file thinks my music is on the external drive. (I'm just assuming this. If all of the information is in the .xml file, I could examine that, although I don't know anything about xml.)

Of course the easiest thing would be for me to have consolidated my library before switching, so that everything would be contained within the iTunes folder. But my music library is much too big.

I would like to know how to edit the iTunes library file (which I assume is the .xml). I don't really understand the previous post which tries to explain this. But I think with some clearing up I could figure it out.

Thanks.

Also: I have a bunch of non-music files in my music folder (from the external). Things such as desktop.ini, Thumbs.db, AlbumArt~.jpg, etc. I would like to know which of these is a Windows thing (i.e. the crazy files that windows inserts in folders), and which is an iTunes thing. Anybody know?



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