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How can I move my iTunes Library to another drive?

September 24, 2011 by Wayne Small 24 Comments

Recently my iTunes library on my C: drive was consuming too much space.  I decided to move it to another drive location but in the process made a mess of it and nearly lost some of my TV shows that I have season passes for.  Here’s what I did to do it the RIGHT way.

Firstly make sure you have a new drive location that has a large amount of free space.  My current iTunes Library was taking up around 40GB of my C: drive, so I decided to move it over to a drive with 500GB of free space. 

Secondly, make sure you have a good backup of your computer before you start – this was my saving grace as without it I would have been even more unhappy.

Next I followed this Apple document here on how to relocate the iTunes library to another drive.  This document is 100% correct, but after you move the folder pay particular attention to step 11 of the document.  It instructs you to delete the iTunes Media folder from the original location.  DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES DELETE THE ORIGINAL iTUNES FOLDER ITSELF.  This was my mistake as I did not correctly read this step and then lost the season passes etc. 

To fix my problem, I restored the original folder in it’s original location from my ShadowProtect backup and restarted iTunes.  I then deleted the data that was copied to the new location and started the process over again, but this time I ONLY deleted the iTunes Media folder, not the folder level above it.  Below you can see the CORRECT folder to delete once you are done.

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Hopefully someone else will learn from my mistakes.  The Apple article works fine, but if you mess up and DO NOT READ IT CORRECTLY as I did then well you can only blame yourself Sad smile

Apple have documented here exactly what the key files are in the iTunes library and you need to ensure you don’t mess with these.

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