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If you attached a removable HD to your computer, can you change the drive letter?
A mate wants to move his iTunes library (60GB!) from his PC to a laptop. Say we attach the removable HD to the computer and the drive letter turns out to be E. I've had the idea of setting the iTunes music folder to E and then consolidating the library. iTunes will then move all the files to E.
Then, on the laptop, I attach the HD and do the same. I Install iTunes, but replace all the settings files with the ones on his PC. iTunes then imports the new library, and reads that the songs are stored at "E:\music\xxx.mp3" as on the PC, but it will have no problems because the music files will be exactly in the same place.
Also, can anyone reccomend an extremely reliable make of removable HD as if anything happens this bloke will have lost his entire library. I've told him backing it up onto a fixed HD on his old computer every few months would be extremely wise.
Many thanks,
A mate wants to move his iTunes library (60GB!) from his PC to a laptop. Say we attach the removable HD to the computer and the drive letter turns out to be E. I've had the idea of setting the iTunes music folder to E and then consolidating the library. iTunes will then move all the files to E.
Then, on the laptop, I attach the HD and do the same. I Install iTunes, but replace all the settings files with the ones on his PC. iTunes then imports the new library, and reads that the songs are stored at "E:\music\xxx.mp3" as on the PC, but it will have no problems because the music files will be exactly in the same place.
Also, can anyone reccomend an extremely reliable make of removable HD as if anything happens this bloke will have lost his entire library. I've told him backing it up onto a fixed HD on his old computer every few months would be extremely wise.
Many thanks,
