iTunes 11 Tutorial - How To Move iTunes Library To External Hard Drive

There’s no “advanced” under the files.

Hey tech guru, you voice is only on the left side and the intro music is distorted.

I have 690 gb in my itunes Hahaha!

The music I find in my folder is not the music that's in my itunes library. There's other songs in there that I don't want and it's almost impossible to seperate the ones I want. There is about 4500 songs there and my library has nowhere near that many. What should I do

didn't START FROM THE BEGINING

how do you undo this? casue I accentually did this and it f'd up my Hard drive music that was already saved in there??

Thank you. You explain it Very well.

and plz dont say free only free to down load and open a account after that you need to pay

more bullshit i just had to get a £600 iphone cos the battry die on my last one i can drag and drop a video off iphone to pc but got to pay for software to put it back on plus watch 18 min videos to work out how to do it and spend £50 to £100 for the software utter bullshit should work both ways drag drop

Dear Dusty,hi this is Declan have had an Apple iPod classic 160gb which I have and am using usb 3 to import CDs on to my Lenovo 512gb SSD labtop but 2 things it is not helping the c drive is choking with all the CDs going in and the labtop is running out of space and thus slightly lagging what are best options to choose like changing location is it to empty c drive and would 1tb or 2tb SSD hard drive external be the answer and my last question is if the iPod classic is filled up to much would it slow it down and possibly corrupt the unit even though it is in perfect condition cheers Declan 👍 best wishes from Ireland 👍👍🙏🙏

I moved iTunes library from my computer Windows 11 to external hard drive, exactly how you showed it. I see it on my external hard drive. But why is it still on my computer?

This was 10000000000x better than the instructions Apple gives on their website. I followed the apple instructions first and essentially lost everything on iTunes. However, I made a back up beforehand, then went and used this method and it restored everything perfectly. The only thing was I believe on PC you now use "shift" while opening itunes, not "control" to get to the "choose library" part. Thanks so much for this video!

Thanks for this.

My question is: how do you move the itunes library that is on an exteral hard drive to another one to start fresh? My old iTunes hard drive is too old and presents issues. I wish to start afresh. Is there a way to do that? Or do I just drag and copy everything?

I wish I could get a 2009 hard drive iTunes

Thanks for this great video! I have a new PC, so I'm moving my empty iTunes media folder to the external hard drive and THEN adding the movies after.

thank you, I have a question. What if iTunes is under another user?

Great video.
But can you please tell me how I can backup all my music files from my you tube music to a second storage device like a SSD drive??

I'll have to get someone to do this for me.
My music in itunes is from many sources and over 110 gigabytes nearly 20,000 tunes and around 60 days worth of playing time...and no I couldn't follow the instructions.
I'm just not tech savvy at all.

Can you do an updated video for Apple music? I updated to Big Sur but didn't have my external plugged in & now its a mess.

Not enough words to thank you! I was trying to transfer over 8,000 songs from old iPod touch to new Mac book Pro and naively thought it would transfer from iPod to laptop if I hit “sync”. Instead it wiped my iPod touch clean, no music. I physically started screaming. Then realized I had an old Windows 7 computer that still had most of the songs on iTunes there. Used your video to recover my music and all is well now. Just need to figure out how to get them BACK on iPod …….. will look for your video on how to do that. Many many thanks again for saving me 100’s of hours of re loading!!!!

I'm a beginner, I clicked on C:Users\My Name\My Music\itunes\itunes Media\Music(I opened Music, all of my music was in this folder. I would like to know which one of these do I drag onto my external hard drive. I don't want to drag the wrong folder onto my external drive. Thanks.

careful it might not move every song correct...

after moving iTunes Library to ext HD can i delete iTunes Library in mac then run iTunes from ext HD

Help, I change the hard drive from C Drive to D Drive Then I close iTunes and re-open and go back into the advanced settings and it’s back to the C Drive.

From both me, and my 260GBs of music; thank you.

I have 76,000 file in my intunes an all my files wasn’t transferred only 40,000 was transferred how’s that

Maybe you already answered this question but I want to make sure before I do something that makes things worse. My phone storage is too large for my computer so I can't back it up on the computer. Is there a way I can have iTunes on an external drive plugged into my computer then plug in my phone and have it back up to my external? Thanks

I’m unable to drag the iTunes folder into my external hard drive. For every attempt to drag it does not drop into the my external drive

definitely doing this tomorrow after work.

Hello and thank you for this very informative video. ONE question. My I tunes library is 250 gigs!!! ONCE transferred can it be deleted on my I MAC? Thank you G

This might have worked 6 years ago but it now needs to be updated, it doesn't work on a mac.

I have questions, my mac total HD is 121.12 GB. total used of app, document icloud, mail, music, podcast is arount 50 GB. but the left over available only 8 GB. there is the over 60 GB go? i try to move everything to external HD. but still not enough space.

It appears that I missing gigs of music! My iTunes is nearly 60G however when I click on the properties of my library on my PC it's telling me there is only 32Gig to copy why is this?

Dear God, please talk. I have sought help from thirty one videos today and 23 were this silent treatment where the information could have bee relayed in 30 seconds if the owner only talked through the video. Its so frustrating and time consuming. Tell us what we need to know and stop playing charades already.

just did this, and now nothing is in itunes. NOTHING. i lost all of my organization. still have all of the files, but playlists are gone, music is not in itunes. WHAT DID I DO WRONG?? HOW CAN I FIX THIS??

THANK YOU!!!

Thanks!!

This was very helpful and straight forward! Thank you!!

Now that you have a duplicate library is it safe to say you can delete the original now that you have a copy?

Thanks for this! Took me a while to find the right file to “connect” to iTunes, but I got it. I just freed up 11 GB on my computer. Yes, I listen to a LOT of music, haha.

Help! already tried clicking 'alt/option' then click itunes app, but still the window of choosing library didn't show up, how come?

Can you delete the songs in iTunes once you put them on your hard drive to free up space on your computer?

Well done. Clear. Thank you.

I keep running into the problem is i see my library on the the hard drive it's set up correct but when I select it makes me not only select just music or album but al the other stuff. I only get one. its not one folder. I followed directions to back it up to a T

Hi , can you please help me as I don’t know how to edit or rename my iTunes media folder location. I am using Windows 10 and don’t know how I got the media folder location. My media location at present C:\Users\clive\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media……how do I change it to C:\Users\Clive\Music\iTunes 3\iTunes Media. I am a novice so please help me. Regards Clive.

Thank you!

do you erase the file on your computer ??

If I do this then download a new file folder with an album or a playlist onto my laptop then whilst connected to the HD I add the files to my iTunes (by dropping or by adding in the drop-down) will it then be put onto my HD.

Very nice tutorial! Good voice narrations and sound! What kind of microphone are you using? Great information...thanks

FYI: Apple is starting to delete movies from accounts...without refunds. So this maybe a good idea, thanks for the info!