Thanks... Bob
--- In apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com, Otto Nikolaus wrote:
>
> This is an excellent article about how to move iTunes libraries.
> <
> http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to-a-new-hard-drive/>
> or
> http://bit.ly/Q3Nn>
>
> I'll give you the quick answer too. You should have simply changed the
> location in Preferences and allowed iTunes to update the library (database)
> file. By importing from the new location (drive) you added all the entries
> *in addition* to the existing ones, hence all the duplicates.
>
> If you had a backup of the iTunes Library *file* from before the change
> then you could reinstate that and start again but I'm guessing that isn't
> an option.
>
> Delete all songs from iTunes but do *not* delete the files. Then add the
> entire iTunes Media folder back in via iTunes > File > Add to Library. You
> will lose any playlists but it will be fairly quick because you are just
> adding entries back into the database, not moving files.
>
> Otto
>
> On 25 February 2013 21:32, Bob Newman wrote:
>
> > This is an iTunes question but I'm putting it here because it affects my
> > iPhone.
> >
> > I have switched hard drives where my music is stored. Whenever I try and
> > play a song in iTunes I get an error message that it can't find the song
> > (it is still looking for the old nonexistent location). I have redirected
> > iTunes to the new location and imported the songs correctly. iTunes now
> > shows each song at least twice, once with the correct location, but the old
> > listings are still there in effect showing a bad listing for each song
> > also. Is there any way to get iTunes to test each link and erase the bad
> > ones automatically? There are too many for me to do individually. If that
> > cannot be done can I just erase the entire library good and bad and then
> > re-import the correct locations from scratch? If so how? (I am a rookie).
> >
>
>
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