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I recently purchased a Drobo to move some of my larger multimedia files off of my iMac as it was running short on storage. The process for moving an iTunes library from one location to another can be daunting, so here are the steps I took. (Mac OSX specific).
- Copy files from drive A to drive B
- Make a backup of “iTunes Music Library.xml”
- Open “iTunes Music Library.xml” file on drive A in a text editor
- Find all references to drive A and replace with drive B
- Make a backup of the “iTunes Library” database file
- Delete the contents of the “iTunes Library” database file
- Open iTunes
- Get a beverage, it will take a while for iTunes to re-import your libraries xml file
These steps were necessary because there are two accounts on my iMac using the same storage path for music but different iTunes libraries. Using the standard “Consolidate Library” method would have left me with thousands of duplicate song files. Using the above method simply changes where iTunes looks for the file to play.
Did I mention that I like your new theme? WAY better than the default. I kind of miss that Nuevo header you had on your RoR blog though.