iTunes issues during external HD switch

[alra111]

Greetings,

I recently purchased a Seagate FreeAgent Pro external hard drive (big mistake). After some efforts, I switched all the music to it, but it was behaving erratically. Sometimes only certain folders show up (i.e. alphabetically all the folders from a - j).

Today I moved everything back to the Western Digital MyBook. But every time I click on a song, it says it cannot find it and graciously offers me the opportunity to find it myself. All the music is there. I could find it myself. But there are almost 10,000 songs there.

WTF is going on?

I need iTunes to find all that stuff automatically. I have a full time job so I cannot find those songs manually for it.

Damn the day I bought the frackin' Seagate.

Alra111

PS: Apple's 1 TB Capsule should be here any day now. I plan on transferring all my music to it. Anyone had any bad experiences transferring their iTunes music to the Time Capsule? Will I experience delays to the the wirelessness nature of the hard drive?? Right now I'm scared of any external HD other than Western Digital.

[mvcube]

Go to the iTunes preferences (advanced options) and change the location of your music files. There is a similar thread in the "Virtualization" subforum here with more details.

Marcus

[alra111]

Originally Posted by mvcube

Go to the iTunes preferences (advanced options) and change the location of your music files. There is a similar thread in the "Virtualization" subforum here with more details.

Marcus

Thanks, I had already done that, but it did not help. I ended up deleting the song entries from iTunes (not the actual files), and re-importing them. All that was lost was the play count and the ratings, so not a lot of harm done...

Alra111