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Old February 18th, 2008, 08:01 PM
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Unhappy itunes library gone walkabout

My hard drive was full so I moved my itunes library to an external hard drive by dragging and dropping the music folder from the hard drive to the external. Because I had already backed up the files and tested them, I did not consolidate the library as the apple support site suggested, but only redirected itunes to the music folder location on the external drive using the itunes preference panel. Then I deleted the itunes music folder from the HD. gulp.

Now itunes has all the songs there, but when I click on one to play it, the message: "original file could not be found...would you like to locate it?" appears - I can do this one song at a time and it works... but there are 5000 songs!! Is there a quick way to get itunes to recognise the library saved to the external hard drive?

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Old February 18th, 2008, 08:55 PM
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Have you tried starting iTunes by clicking on the dock icon while pressing the "option" key.
This should give you an option to select your Library location.

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