ultra_supra Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 i have itunes on my computer & its causing the system to run as laggy as you like due to all the songs etc so today i baught the WD (Western Digital) 320GB external hard drive with the idea of putting all of my music/itunes onto it freeing up space on the main system...however.. when i transfer the information its only transfering the folders & not the files... for example if i select the 'oasis' folder from the music list on my external HD when i open it - it doesn't contain any of the songs that would be there if it was from the main system.... it may be quite difficult to explain over the internet with out actually seein the problem but does anyone know where i may be going wrong? i've checked file location of my itunes songs so make sure i'm transfering from the correct place but even when i transfer all of 'c' drive they still don't transfer.... any help appreciated as i'm not the best when it comes to this kinda stuff to say the least lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colsoop Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 is I tunes up and running when you try and transfer the songs ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultra_supra Posted March 20, 2008 Author Share Posted March 20, 2008 is I tunes up and running when you try and transfer the songs ? it may have been runnin in the background...altho i didn't physically open it if u know wot i mean lol , is it worth me closing the programme & trying again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlennK Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Use Task Manager to kill any iTunes processes running. Then use Explorer to drag & drop one folder at a time. You will be able to observe its progress. Let me know what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultra_supra Posted March 20, 2008 Author Share Posted March 20, 2008 Use Task Manager to kill any iTunes processes running. Then use Explorer to drag & drop one folder at a time. You will be able to observe its progress. Let me know what happens. thanks mate - i've used tank manager to close itunes completely but when i select a folder and try dragging it into the external HD page it won't allow me to add it (just has the black circle with the line through it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultra_supra Posted March 20, 2008 Author Share Posted March 20, 2008 that said..when i manually select an indevidual song it does allow me to add it that way....but i have around 3,000 songs...surely there would be a way to select more than one?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupraShaun Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Try zipping them up (Not all of them at once) then drag them onto the External HD and unzip them on there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Massey Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 are you trying to move the songs in itunes or the songs in your music folder? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultra_supra Posted March 20, 2008 Author Share Posted March 20, 2008 are you trying to move the songs in itunes or the songs in your music folder? the songs in my music folder moved no with no issues but the ones on my itunes are the ones bein a pain...i'm not selecting them from itunes itself but the folder that they are saved in... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultra_supra Posted March 20, 2008 Author Share Posted March 20, 2008 Try zipping them up (Not all of them at once) then drag them onto the External HD and unzip them on there. this method has worked...albeit abit of a slow process atleast it is working (thanks fella) i'm still surprised theres not a more simpler method but maybe thats me being optomistic lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Massey Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 iv just had a play with mine, the ones that are in your itunes folder are short cuts for the ones in your music folder does seem a pita to move tho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultra_supra Posted March 20, 2008 Author Share Posted March 20, 2008 yeh - alot of my music seems to be in different locations :rolleyes:doh. will get there in the end! thanks again for everyones help - its much appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 You can do it by opening the XML config file and doing a search/replace on the directory path for the files to the new location. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultra_supra Posted March 21, 2008 Author Share Posted March 21, 2008 i've come across another problem today, the HD should hold around 80,000 MP3's however i've not even put a quatre of my music on it yet & it says its full my itunes files are 'MPEG-4' though so are these that much bigger than MP3 files?! i wouldn't have thought they would be but maybe sumone else knows better? also could it be because i'm making a zipped folder for each artist it could be taking up that much more space?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Massey Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 not sure bout that as a zipped folder is smaller what GB is your harddrive? sounds a bit strange Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultra_supra Posted March 21, 2008 Author Share Posted March 21, 2008 not sure bout that as a zipped folder is smaller what GB is your harddrive? sounds a bit strange its this one in the link dude: http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1992283560.1206111680@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccehadedjdjlhelcflgceggdhhmdgml.0&page=Product&sku=533727 just checked the space available & it says 'current profile data size - 1465MB' 'available space - 303175MB' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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