My old computer unexpectedly shat itself a couple of weeks ago (exactly 20 minutes after I completed my final uni project, would you believe), so I'm replacing it with a laptop and buying external caddies for the old hard drives. This is quite a small problem in comparison to the amount of (un)installing I'll be doing over the next couple of days, but does anyone here have any experience with migrating iTunes to a new music drive? My old one was s:\ and now it's d:\.
Find the iTunes music library.xml file (thats what its called in OSX, should be similar in Windows) from your old library. An ubbbber important file.
Install, run then close iTunes on the new computer
Overwrite the new .xml file with the larger, old one.
Copy the library (the music, videos etc) anywhere you want. (so long as it follows the same structure as before)
Go into iTunes preferences>advanced>general and select where the music now lives. It should say "updating links" or something as it basically changes the .xml file to use the new file address.
Et voila.
You can hard code the xml file to fix the links too. Just copy the old xml file into the new ones location, put the files where you'd like to keep them. Open the XML and just go on "find and replace" and enter the new location. I made a little MMF app do this so I can mirror my OSX iTunes to my XP iTunes on bootup.
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