iTunes issues during external HD switch

alra111

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Greetings,

I recently purchased a Seagate FreeAgent Pro external hard drive (big mistake). After some efforts, I switched all the music to it, but it was behaving erratically. Sometimes only certain folders show up (i.e. alphabetically all the folders from a - j).

Today I moved everything back to the Western Digital MyBook. But every time I click on a song, it says it cannot find it and graciously offers me the opportunity to find it myself. All the music is there. I could find it myself. But there are almost 10,000 songs there.

WTF is going on?

I need iTunes to find all that stuff automatically. I have a full time job so I cannot find those songs manually for it.

Damn the day I bought the frackin' Seagate.

Alra111

PS: Apple's 1 TB Capsule should be here any day now. I plan on transferring all my music to it. Anyone had any bad experiences transferring their iTunes music to the Time Capsule? Will I experience delays to the the wirelessness nature of the hard drive?? Right now I'm scared of any external HD other than Western Digital.
 
Go to the iTunes preferences (advanced options) and change the location of your music files. There is a similar thread in the "Virtualization" subforum here with more details.

Marcus
 
Go to the iTunes preferences (advanced options) and change the location of your music files. There is a similar thread in the "Virtualization" subforum here with more details.

Marcus

Thanks, I had already done that, but it did not help. I ended up deleting the song entries from iTunes (not the actual files), and re-importing them. All that was lost was the play count and the ratings, so not a lot of harm done...

Alra111
 
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