Can anyone help me? Please??
i fink i dun a stoopid fing...

bought an 80GB Lacie external hard-drive yesterday for £30 cos i needed to free up a bit of hard-drive space on my G4 Powerbook.

Dragged and dropped my iTunes music file into the external drive, waited for the 42GB of music to be copied then...wait for it...here comes the stoopid bit...shifted the original files into the trash, emptied the trash and re-started my laptop (after checking the file copying had been succesful i must add!) allowing filevault to recover all that lovely hard-drive space.

and guess what?

yup

iTunes doesn't love me anymore and can't find the files so it looks (to me) like i will need to sort this out track-by-track.

is there another way?

and yes, i know i am!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Wed 29 Oct 2008, 11:37, 14 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Emmmm
42 gigabytes of music?

Wouldn't that cost thousands on iTunes????
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 11:41, Reply)

This may be of use
www.copytrans.net/

I recently used that to copy all the music from my sisters ipod onto a new computer. Worked a charm although the trial only allows you to copy 100 tracks. Doesn't cost too much to purchase a licence though.
( Captain V, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 11:42, Reply)

TDW
it's all still there, sitting on the external drive, almost all of it was uploaded from my cd collection...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Wed 29 Oct 2008, 11:50, Reply)

althegeordie
fair enough!
feeling a bit daft now...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Wed 29 Oct 2008, 11:52, Reply)

@TDW
Lol, people still pay to download music?
(GONEism, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:41, Reply)

Oh,
and it helps if you regularly consolidate your library. Takes up twice as much space but it can be a godsend when your computer stuffs up. I guess this is all a bit hindsight-y now though. If it helps, I did the exactsame thing last year.
(GONEism, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:43, Reply)

Not me!
I've been downloading absolutely loads of albums lately, in fact discographies of some older bands and I'm nowhere near 40 gigabytes. I've been downloading so much I don't even get the chance to listen to half of it!

Just thought by the time shes on iTunes she'd be paying :E
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:43, Reply)

TDW
she?

wasn't last time i looked.

and i was talking about the programme not the store...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:50, Reply)

Sorry just looking at your name made me think 'she'. I took a gamble and failed...
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 15:03, Reply)

ha
and indeed ha
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Wed 29 Oct 2008, 15:32, Reply)

Here's how it's done
Hold the Option key when you start iTunes. You can then select the library you wish to use. Just make sure that each time you start the program subsequently that the external disk is mounted first.

Works for iPhoto too.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 16:26, Reply)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
k2k6

you star!

i kinda knew there would be a way, i just didn't know what!

many thanks

x



which one's the option key? is it the apple key with the squirly square thing?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Wed 29 Oct 2008, 17:03, Reply)

The option key
is the one that says alt and has a picture of an and/or gate on it.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Wed 29 Oct 2008, 18:23, Reply)

fanx
x
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Wed 29 Oct 2008, 19:18, Reply)