Thanks: this is very helpful: I"ll try it. But I'm still not clear about how many music folders I'll have:currently I know I can't actually "copy" any files from iTunes itself. wll the music folder in my home folder no longer be operative? Will I go to the external drive? How is what's on the external drive any different from what's currently in iTunes? If I can't durrently download from iTunes, if I move the library how will I be able to download individual items from the external drive if that's now my new iTunles locatiln? Sorry to be so dense. Judy On Jan 11, 2010, at 2:06 AM, ashley wrote: > it could also be in itunes media, which is also in the itunes folder. > > ash > Personal website: > www.ashleycox.co.uk > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ricardo Walker" <rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 9:58 AM > Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Moving iTunes library and retrieving .mp3 files. > > > Hi, > > when you are in the finder window, press command shift H. Then arrow down to > music. Open up the music folder then go to iTunes. Open up the iTunes > folder then arrow down to iTunes music. In here you should find all your > music assuming you haven't moved your music to an external drive. Here you > can copy a song then paste it into another media player if you so choose. Now > let's say you have moved all of your music to a folder on an external drive. > You would go into the iTunes program and open preferences and select the > advanced tab. here you will find a button labeled "choose". VO spacebar on > this button and a dialog box will open where you pick the folder on the > external drive to be the default music folder for iTunes. Once this has been > done, whenever you add music to your iTunes it will place it in that default > folder on your external drive. > > Please feel free to ask more questions if I have confused you more. lol. . > On Jan 10, 2010, at 5:13 PM, Judy Wilkinson wrote: > >> I'm afraid I didn't understand much of your instructions. First, how do I >> find this users/ thing? Then how do I in fact move the library if the files >> library submenu isn't the way? And finally, what about downloading the .mp3 >> files to some other mp3 player? >> Judy >> On Jan 10, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I think I got your question. first, The move library in the file menu is >>> not what your looking for. First you want to find your iTunes music folder >>> which by default is located in users/username/music/iTunes. If you already >>> transferred all your music to an external drive, open up iTunes and go to >>> preferences. Then interact with the toolbar and select advanced. Stop >>> interacting then press the change button. From here select the drive then >>> the folder in which your music is stored. >>> On Jan 10, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Judy Wilkinson wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> I want to permanently move my entire iTunes library to an external drive >>>> and only have iTunes look there in future. >>>> >>>> I've found a submenu on the File menu called "library" one choice of which >>>> is "move library". I'm assuming this is what I should do. Let me know if >>>> thisis wrong. THen how do I get iTunes only to look for that drive? >>>> >>>> But secondarily, I often want to move individual .mp3 files to a playback >>>> ddevie other than my Nano. Currently I do this by going to my iTunes music >>>> foler in Finder. Is this an actual duplicate or only a "pointer" folder. >>>> In other words, can I back up a library larger than my Mac drive and still >>>> retrieve individual files. I can't get individual files from iTunes >>>> itself. Can I still use that folder in Finder? >>>> >>>> Hope this isn't too unclear. 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