I've switched drives a few times. My way of doing it is to copy the music to the new drive. Point iTunes to the new directory, as you have done. After that I just delete the current library, then I add library and point it to the new folder.
iTunes setup with peripheral drive
I've set this up before, and everything has worked well. But not this weekend when I changed to a different HD with a new playlist.
I even went to the effort of a complete software reinstall on the 2007-2008 MacMini.
In iTunes advanced, I have pointed iTunes to the music file folder on the peripheral drive. But after that I cannot get iTunes to form the playlist for its library without copying the files from the peripheral HD back to the MacMini... grrr!
Your help in the procedure is incredibly appreciated.
:) listening,
Ed
I even went to the effort of a complete software reinstall on the 2007-2008 MacMini.
In iTunes advanced, I have pointed iTunes to the music file folder on the peripheral drive. But after that I cannot get iTunes to form the playlist for its library without copying the files from the peripheral HD back to the MacMini... grrr!
Your help in the procedure is incredibly appreciated.
:) listening,
Ed