intheparlance
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OK, my old machine died but i got most of my stuff off the drive - so I have:
50 gigs of music on an external drive - it's a mix of one or two itunes libraries 40-50 gigs of music including tons of dupes in different folder architectures and generally a total mess.
I have about 7-8 gigs of music in an itunes library on the hard drive of the new machine. Some of it is probably - you guessed it - duped amongst the 50 gigs on the external.
I just got a 1tb drive.
My goal is to get one location with all my music, no dupes, in one itunes library without spending ten hours doing it or deduping manually.
* it would be nice to have those extra libraries in tact - ratings, playlists, etc. but I can live if i get one clean library.
My thought: Reinstall itunes put the library on the empty 1tb drive - and choose the copy all music to the itunes folder function and then add all my music? Then i have one lcoation with everything - i can back that up, move it to my hard drive so i don't need to access the external for it and then delete my current 50 gig mish mosh.
Thoughts? Better ideas? Words of caution? etc. etc.
thanks.
50 gigs of music on an external drive - it's a mix of one or two itunes libraries 40-50 gigs of music including tons of dupes in different folder architectures and generally a total mess.
I have about 7-8 gigs of music in an itunes library on the hard drive of the new machine. Some of it is probably - you guessed it - duped amongst the 50 gigs on the external.
I just got a 1tb drive.
My goal is to get one location with all my music, no dupes, in one itunes library without spending ten hours doing it or deduping manually.
* it would be nice to have those extra libraries in tact - ratings, playlists, etc. but I can live if i get one clean library.
My thought: Reinstall itunes put the library on the empty 1tb drive - and choose the copy all music to the itunes folder function and then add all my music? Then i have one lcoation with everything - i can back that up, move it to my hard drive so i don't need to access the external for it and then delete my current 50 gig mish mosh.
Thoughts? Better ideas? Words of caution? etc. etc.
thanks.