Q&A: How To Relocate iTunes Library Without Re-import

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Uploaded by on Jun 10, 2009

In this video, I answer a question from covax914 - http://twitter.com/covax914 - who asks if there is an easy to way to relocate your iTunes library without re-importing? Thanks for the question covax914. What I did was I first backed up my iTunes library to backup folder. I then told iTunes to use a new location for the library. When you do this, you must tell iTunes to automatically keep your library organized. This little trick has worked for me so far and I haven't had any issues. Hope this answers your question, covax914.

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  • hey, what about corrupted itunes files that wont download and songs that are on ur itunes but dont play?

  • Good video response. That is a good way to manage space as well....

  • i have a mac mini and all my music in an a external drive for some reason it keeps telling me the same thing i went through is a found all my music back. then i closed itunes and opened it again and the same thing popped up the exclamation mark popped up. after i spent all day locating all the files over 4000 songs i have it tell me it cant find it. plz help

  • would be more helpful to see the folders you mention

  • @SycoticB Yeah, let me transfer on to you my Karma....lol!!

  • Question: I have my Itunes on a back up drive. I want to know if I will be able to use it with all my playlists? No one ever answers that!!! I have Itunes on my Mac and my Library is organized with Playlists, Folders and Smart Playlist - meaning, everything is named and organized!!! Once I delete my music from my Mac (after the transfer to external drive) will I be able to retain these Playlists while playing music from my external drive!!!!???

  • @SirSmokeify you cheapo!

  • my itunes media folder was empty but thanks for that info

  • shut the hell up..

  • Im gonna kill myself HELP ME PLEASE.

    I was on itunes one day and then it all randomly got exclamation marks ffs, so it wouldn't work. Now I tried this and everything OMG.

    I don't know where I am meant to find my music, it dosent show me each music file it just shows me random folders, please try and help me.

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